The queens are coming to Emporia — the barbecue queens, that is.
Kayla Oney, executive director of Emporia Main Street, said the tiara totin’ BBQ Queens will be at the Grilling at the Market event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Farmers Market kiosk. The BBQ Queens, Karen Adler and Judith Fertig, will be offering cooking demonstrations and audience members will have the opportunity to sample the food being grilled. Adler and Fertig have been grilling across the United States and have sold more than 500,000 cookbooks. The BBQ Queens have been featured on Food Network, Better Homes and Gardens TV and in numerous national magazines.
The event, which is co-sponsored by Flint Hills Technical College, KVOE, Emporia Farmers Market, Emporia Convention and Visitors Bureau and Emporia Main Street, is for all ages and is free and open to the public, Oney added.
Everything that the BBQ Queens will be making will include ingredients purchased either from the Farmers Market or locally at Emporia grocery stores, Oney said.
“Every ingredient that is going to be in those recipes can be purchased locally,” she said. “It’s going to be stuff that is in season. It can’t get any easier.”
The Grilling at the Market event also will feature an opportunity for participants to win a picnic table and a Weber grill.
“There will also be some neat giveaways, baskets and those types of things,” Oney said.
For more information on the BBQ Queens, go to www.bbqqueens.com.
The BBQ Queens schedule on Aug. 9:
- 9 to 9:25 a.m. — Grilled beefsteak tomatoes with cheddar or goat cheese.
- 9:30 to 9:55 a.m. — Grilled knife and fork vegetable salad with work of art vinaigrette.
- 10 to 10:25 a.m. — Grass-fed sirloin steak sprinkled with zesty salt and pepper rub.
- 10:30 to 10:55 — Corn on the cob, grilled in the husk with flavored butters.
- 11 to 11:25 a.m. — Chocolate crostini.
- 11:30 to 11:55 a.m. — Tomatoes
- 12 to 12:25 p.m. — Corn
- 12:30 to 12:55 p.m. — Grilled apple rings with brown sugar butter baste.
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Posted by smith_ron (anonymous) on July 23, 2008 at 2:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Interesting how the BBQ Queens are not cooking any barbecue. Just grilling some steaks and stuff. Still, sounds tasty!!
Posted by scripta (anonymous) on July 23, 2008 at 3:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I thought the same thing.
Posted by jmb232 (anonymous) on July 24, 2008 at 2:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It is interesting that grilling is often confused with BBQ. It is almost used as the same meaning when in fact grilling is cooking over hot coals and BBQ is meat that is slowly smoked in a smoker fired by wood.
In reality they are both good, but surely not the same.
If someone would offer me one or the other I would eat it.
By the way aren't there several good BBQ places in Emporia?
Posted by LifeGoesOn (anonymous) on July 24, 2008 at 6:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
jmb232,smith_ron,scripta
barbeque,BBQ
noun
1. meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce [syn: barbecue]
2. a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit [syn: barbecue]
3. a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors [syn: barbecue]
verb
1. cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that meat"; "We cooked out in the forest"
Define "BBQ" however you wish, this is still going to be a good thing for the market, It amazes me how everytime an article comes out, some will find something to complain about or point out the faults. Heck I always thought BBQ stood for "better be quick!"
Posted by create (anonymous) on July 24, 2008 at 7:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I may as well chime in here.
Barbecue is a borrowed word. Discoverers of the "New World" found Caribbean people cooking meat held over open flames, or to be more exact...
"The origins of both the activity of barbecue cooking and the word itself are somewhat obscure. Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives ultimately from the word barabicu found in the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean. The word translates as sacred fire pit and is also spelled barbicoa or barabicoa.[2] The word describes a grill for cooking meat, consisting of a wooden platform resting on sticks."
Ever have Mexican barbacoa? Fantastic stuff!
Posted by smith_ron (anonymous) on July 24, 2008 at 2:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Heck, no one is complaining. A good hunk of meat is a good hunk of meat, no matter how it is cooked (well, almost). Besides, the serious Q'ers know the difference.
Posted by murmusic (Regina Murphy) on July 25, 2008 at 12:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Barbecue = sacred fire pit? Sublime!
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