Where but in the USA would you find the World Barbecue Cooking Contest! The country that does everything in a big way certainly knows how to eat.
This annual event takes place in Memphis, and is part of the Memphis in May festival. This year’s grand cook off takes place 17th May to 19th May, and is always the crowning glory of the festival (it’s dubbed the world championship though it’s not the only one). It takes place on the banks of the Mississippi river in the Tom Lee Park, it’s not only corporate sponsored professionals who take part in this smoky combat of ‘culinary delights’, ordinary folk take part with their back garden barbecues.
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Heard about the burning man? Nope? Well this might just be the alternative trip for you…..
It’s a week long annual art festival held last August / early September (over America’s Labour Day) in the Black Rock Dessert that some 30,000 people attend. It started life on a San Francisco beach in the mid 80’s when Larry Harvey decided to burn a wooden ‘home-made’ statue of a man in allegiance to his father. The festival moved to its current location in 1990 when it had become so popular as to constitute a safety risk, and it became a more ‘formal’ gathering.
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