The town of Tom's River, NJ had luck on their side on Saturday, May 19 for the 18th Annual New Jersey State Chili and Salsa Cookoff. The forecast was for rain and cool temps for the day. We did have the cool temps, but that was perfect for the thousands of spectators tasting and voting for their favorite hot chili and salsa. The rain threatened several times, but never came. The Tom's River Business Improvement District did their usual fantastic job of making all the cooks feel welcome. After a huge hot breakfast in the morning, they brought all the cooks wonderful goodie bags and then had a great catered lunch of sandwiches, fruits, veggies, cookies and sodas. Last year's winners took their ride on the fire engine down the street in front of all the booths during the parade at the start of the cookoff, as all the other cooks showered the area with confetti. The festival is several blocks long with chili booths, vendors and all kinds of food for sale. The townspeople look forward to this event every year.
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This year's results:
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People's Choice Chili
3rd – The Firm 4 with Jeff Cousminer
2nd – Matt's Red Hot Chili Pepper Chili with Matt Crossken
1st – The Rat Chili WRAT 95.9 with chili from Mulligan's Bar & Grill
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People's Choice Salsa
3rd – Chili Cats by Jenny Windsor
2nd – Wayne's Cactus Salsa by Wayne Smith
1st – The Firm 4 with Jeff Cousminer
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Salsa 15 entries:
5th – Jane Bauer, VA
4th – Mike Freedman, CT (Lost tiebreaker)
3rd – Les Walter, MD
2nd – Jim Heywood, NY (Lost tiebreaker)
1st – Jack Windsor, MD
Chili Verde 12 entries
Tied for 4th (Tie not broken)
Jeff Cousminer, NJ
Judy Omerza, PA
3rd – Tom Yanisko, NJ
2nd – Jim Heywood, NY
1st – Kurt Leitner, NJ This was Kurt's second time competing with Verde and his first trip to the World's
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Red Chili 26 entries
5th – Kathy Freedman, CT
4th – Jack Windsor, MD
3rd – Tom Yanisko, NJ
2nd – Dan Bauer, VA
1st – Stephen Moir, NJ Stephen has competed in this cookoff for several years and this is his first trip to the World's.
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Congratulations to all the winners.
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Silver State District
Winners
SALSA
1st Barbara Ward ID
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CHILI VERDE
1st Don Burroughs NV
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ICS RED
1st Charlie Ward ID
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Chili Cooks' Cooking History on ICS web page - from Susie Baumberger
I just discovered the personal Winning Cookoff histories for each chili cook on the ICS web page.
WOW! What a great idea!
To check out your history (or anyone else) go to the ICS Home Page www.chilicookoff.com then click on "chili champions," scroll down to "Winner Search" and type in the first name and last name, then hit "find."
I have no idea how long this feature has been functioning!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(Technical Note from BLOGGER) Each Name is linked to the Winners List for the years 1997 thru 2007 as they appear on the Winners List for each given year, if the cookoffs listed for those years have the complete information, then your Name will have the up-to-date information.
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