Yadkin Valley Living

Is It Chili Yet?

What makes a winning chili? YOU do!

Yes, it’s time for the Yadkin Valley Grape Festival and one of its most popular components is the Chili Cook-off.

This year the cook-off is sponsored by Anthony’s Deli and Bakery with all proceeds to be donated to Yadkin Christian Ministries.

Whether your special chili concoction is cooked with ground beef, vegetarian, tomato based or white, fat free, knock you socks off chili pepper spicy, beanless, or all from cans, your challenge is to steal the tastebuds of your three judges. They don’t need to know of your secret ingredients may include peanut butter, chocolate, cola, coffee, honey or even red wine! President Lyndon Johnson preferred venison in his Texas-style chili. So many folks wanted the recipe that Lady Bird had post cards printed so she could easily drop one in the mail.

Hurry to get your entry form at Anthony’s Deli in downtown Yadkinville,

336-679-4155 or anthonysdeliandbakery@yahoo.com
There is a non-refundable fee of $25. Forms are to be returned to Anthony’s no later than 3 pm on October 1.

On the day of competition, get there early. Your “team” must have a team name posted on site for judging purposes. All teams are required to have at least one six-foot table and a 10x10 tent. Contact the sponsor if this is a problem—no team will be allowed to compete without a table and a tent on the day of the festival because all chili must be cooked at the festival and is required to pass Health Department temperature checks.
Plan to make a minimum of five gallons of chili in order to have enough for the whole day.

Trophies will be awarded for first, second, and third places; a People’s Choice; the Best Decorated Booth and new this year at the Grape Festival, the Best Firehouse Chili. With 12 volunteer fire departments in the county, competition will be keen.
Sponsor and chef Anthony Canova says, “Let the best chili win!”

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OOPS... we made a typo

in the Taste of the Tropics Cheesecake in the July/August issue on page 31!

The ingredients calls for THREE- 8oz packages of cream cheese.

Quick fingers on the keys missed the 8.

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Jessie Myers shares

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Neat Yadkin Valley Things We've Seen

On a recent trip to Appomattox, VA,

while touring an old store recreation in the National Park– We spotted this jug from THE YADKIN VALLEY DISTILLING CO. Donnaha, NC!!

Exhibit Celebrating Scouting

Now Open at Mount Airy Museum of Regional History

    The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History has opened a new changing exhibit titled “Century of Service: 100 Years of Boy Scouting.” The display is the newest exhibit in the museum’s annual changing exhibits program and will be on display through January 15, 2011.

    Century of Service was produced in collaboration with the Boy Scouts of America National office, Old Hickory Council and the Camp Raven Knob Museum. The exhibit is an interactive journey through the past, present and future of the Boy Scouts of America with a focus on service as one of the core values.

    Additionally, the exhibit explores the history and traditions of Scouting in northwest North Carolina and features objects from both private and museum collections in the area.

    According to Matt Edwards, Executive Director of the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, “the worldwide Scouting movement has impacted the lives of countless people, and this exhibit is a great way for the museum to help commemorate one hundred years of Scouting in the United States.”

    Many of the components on exhibit at the museum were originally developed by the Boy Scouts of America as part of a traveling exhibit called Adventure Base 100 that is currently touring the US as part of the Centennial celebration. The national traveling exhibit visited Charlotte, NC and Greenville, SC in April, but has not made any other stops in the near this region.

    In an effort to maximize exposure of the exhibit materials, the Boy Scouts of America partnered with selected museums to create localized versions of the exhibit. The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History and the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh are among those.

    The exhibit features hands-on components, interactive video and a tremendous collection of local scouting memorabilia. “There really is something for everyone here” Edwards adds.

www.northcarolinamuseum.org

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