23rd Annual NC Championship Barbecue Cookoff, Kinston, NC  April 27, 2007

The 23rd Annual NC Championship Barbecue Cookoff was held on April 27, 2007. Results for Product Quality and Blind Tasting: #1 Chris Garner (Big Daddy’s Cooking Team), #2 Russell Snider (Pot Belly Pigs), #3 Edgar Hargis (Smokin Porkers) and #4 Richard Baylis (Trimmed Out Cookin Team). Results for Showmanship: #1 Joseph A. Peterson (Down Home Cookers), Gary Walters (Premium Smoke Fanatics), #3 Charles E. Chestnut (The Three Little Pigs) and #4 Leslie Deaton (The Carolina Cooker).

"Photo Courtesy of the Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce"