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Chili Cooks To Return To Elkton
By Ted Hayes
ELKTON — Something tasty is coming back on May 31. It’s Elkton’s second annual chili cookoff, which this year is an official Elkton Centennial event. It is slated to include local and professional chili cookers, an auto cruise-in, artisan and crafters exhibits, live music, food vendors, and, hopefully, record crowds on West Spotswood Avenue from the downtown triangle to Ashby Avenue.
The cookoff’s organizers, members of the Elkton Downtown Revitalization Corporation (EDRC), are hoping to top the success of the event last September, at which 20 Elktonians took the challenge and entered their own chili recipes from booths stationed in the parking lot across from town hall.
“Do people in this area pride themselves on knowing how to make some great tasting chili? Then they should call and enter,” said Nancy Coffman, a member of EDRC and a cookoff organizer.
Last year’s cookoff surprised its own organizers with its success. It brought hundreds of visitors to the downtown area, as well as members of the Chili Appreciation Society, or CASI, who held their own, separate professional competition, and radio stations Magic 95.5 and WSIG 96.9 to broadcast the whole event.
CASI’s presence was a strong plus for last year’s event. Members of the Virginia branch live all across the state and travel the whole eastern seaboard to compete in CASI-sponsored chili cookoffs — a degree of enthusiasm...
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