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Wake Forest Fire Chief Jerry Swift and
chefs from Station #1 and Station #2
will compete at the first Four-Alarm
Chili Cook-off at the Wake Forest
Farmers’ Market on Sept. 23, and they
will bring along a fire truck to put out
any chili fires.
Since those threaten to be
only internal, the fire trucks can serve
to entertain children for the morning.
Jeannie Brogner will serve
up her Texas Twister Chili for Station
#1, and Bill Wandrack will compete for
Station #2.
It is especially fitting for
the local fire stations to compete
because the chili cook-off is the last
event in the market’s summer-long fund
drive for the Bunn Fire Department.
It was fire trucks and fire
fighters from Bunn who responded last
winter when fire broke out at the Flying
Pig Farm owned by Mike Morphy and Gayle
Hoover. They sell 10 varieties of
garlic, Shitake mushrooms, specialty
flowers and several tasty garlic
relishes at the market.
Next year the fire
department with the best chili cooks
will benefit from the market’s
fund-raising efforts. Fire departments
enter for free.
The rest of the chili cooks
pay a $20 entry fee. The contest winner
will split those fees with the Bunn Fire
Department.
The chili cook-off, like the
market, is held in the gazebo parking
lot on South White Street. There is a
cash prize (see above) for the winner
and a special prize to the chef who uses
the most local ingredients.
Along with the entry fee,
chefs will pay $2.50 for the use of a
chafing dish and heat, if needed.
The chili needs to be at the
market between 8 and 9 a.m. for the
tasting that begins at 9:30 with judging
between 10 a.m. and noon. The prizes
will be awarded at noon.
Call Terri Wilkinson at
556-1579 (terri_wilkinson@hotmail.com)
or visit
http://www.wakeforestmarket.org for
more information and an entry form. You
can also write your name, telephone,
e-mail, and address on a piece of paper,
make a $20 check to payable to Sherry
Kretschmer. Bring it to the market in
advance of the cook-off date or send it
to Wake Forest Farmers’ Market, c/o
Terri Wilkinson, 1200 Oak Grove Church
Road, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
The Wake Forest Farmers’
Market is held every Saturday through
October and features vendors from a
75-mile radius who sell organic
vegetables, fruits and meats as well as
soaps, baked goods, flowers and pottery.
Through September you can
also purchase maps and buttons for the
Carolina Farm Stewards Association
Triangle East Farm Tour that will be
held the weekend of Sept. 23-24. |
