This contest is not some backyard barbecue cook-off that just anybody enters.
Sunday is the main event, the first-ever heritage breed BBQ cook-off.
For the cafeteria cook-off, each school chef was paired with a professional chef and each team was given 30 minutes to prepare a lunch for 20 kids that met federal nutrition guidelines.
The food trucks are currently racing to get up and running, having already undergone a rigorous testing process that included a presentation of their business plan, a proposed theme and menu, and a cook-off.
With more than 250 teams from as far as New York and Chicago competing, plus tens of thousands of visitors, this culinary cook-off gets attention from folks as diverse as redneck party animals to celebrity chefs (like Tom Colicchio and Danny Meyer).
Held in Terlingua, Texas, in 1967, the debut cook-off was organised to settle a score between the embryonic CASI and an East Coast food writer who reviewed their champion's effort as "Texas mud pudding" in an article boldly headlined Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do.
Joe Ely is best known around these parts as one of the Flatlanders, the other two being Butch Hancock, whom I first met in Terlinqua, Texas, another Texas cultural center (they have the annual chili cook-off), and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, whose voice is sweeter than sweet wine.
To separate himself from the pack, Cook provides off-season clothing storage free of charge.
Trott reached his second Ashes century in as many Ashes appearances on the stroke of lunch, after which Ponting indicated to the umpires he had cleanly caught Cook at short mid-wicket off Xavier Doherty with the score 457-1.
Inevitably, Bopara sold Cook horribly short when pushing to cover and setting off for a mad run - Cook was run out by yards - and Graeme Swann lasted just six balls.
Maiden one-day centuries from Alastair Cook and Ian Bell led England to 288-2 off 50 overs after they were put in, with Bell 126 not out from 118 balls.
Cook, who scored in the play-off semi-final against Coventry, will be remembered for special solo goals against Manchester in the play-offs and Coventry in the league.
Cook and Bell were still together when the 200 came up in the 39th over and Cook whipped a length delivery on off-stump through mid-on to move to 99, reaching 100 from 122 balls.
Ponting spilled a tough chance offered by Cook, again off Watson, before - following a series of memorable lofted drives by both batsmen - Strauss called his men in, thus sparing the Australians any further punishment.
With the innings on the verge of collapse at 74-3, Cook and Bell - who began his innings with a sumptuous cover-driven boundary off Kallis - steered England to lunch without further cause for concern.
Sean Ervine top-scored for the visitors with just 22 before he was trapped lbw by Simon Cook, who ended the day with 2-20 off 10 overs.
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After college he sold pots and pans door-to-door, offering to cook meals for families to show off his wares.
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Denied the alacrity of Dale Steyn through injury, South Africa recalled Nel while Morne Morkel, taking the new ball in Steyn's absence, made the most of the pitch, offering openers Andrew Strauss and Cook little width with a probing line around both left-handers' off stump.
Cook thought he was out on 46, lofting a catch to mid-on off Michael Beer.
Stevens, who was dropped at slip by Alastair Cook off Kaneria, hit seven fours and a six in his 91-ball effort to ram home Kent's advantage.
Alastair Cook again seemed out of sorts and was feeling for the ball outside off-stump, a hesitant prod fizzing off the inside edge through a large gap between bat and pad to uproot his leg stump.
Alastair Cook (52) went soon after, having made the tour's first half-century off 67 balls including seven fours, when he was tempted into driving Willett's perfectly pitched delivery which spun through the gate.
Alastair Cook was bowled by a delivery that bounced off his body onto the stumps as England reached 10-1.
Cook hooked Taylor for a sumptuous boundary and drove him for another, before Strauss's cover-drive off Edwards finished off proceedings.
But it was the briefest of honeymoons for Cook, lasting only until the last ball of the eighth over, when he played a half-hearted force off the back foot to a ball well wide of off-stump - and to the delight of the bowler Hilfenhaus, Michael Hussey dived expertly in the gully to take a fine one-handed catch.
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