Other contests include oysters, hamburgers, cheese steak, baby back ribs, buffalo wings, jalapenos, asparagus, meatballs, catfish and corned beef.

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Campaigners said apart from the award-winning butchers there were bakers, brewers, buffalo herders and bee-keepers, fudge, pate and cheese makers, and even a purveyor of garlic products.

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Traditionally, mozzarella, that bouncy, grassy-fresh ball of a cheese, is made with the milk of the water buffalo in the Campania region of Southern Italy.

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