- Justin Fox Burks
- Chef Wally Joe at last year’s Heritage BBQ
Cochon 555, which puts on a series of culinary events across the nation to promote heritage breed pigs, has been releasing details over the last month on this year’s Heritage BBQ.
Heritage BBQ debuted in Memphis last year over the Labor Day weekend. The three-day, multi-venue event included an outside “fire kitchen,” a market, a pop-up barbecue restaurant, seminars, dinners, a run, and the main event — a competition pitting top chefs against each other in creating dishes using the whole hog.
This year’s Heritage BBQ, which returns to Memphis August 30th, brings two big changes:
First, the event is expanding to Louisville and St. Louis. Second, what was once a three-day bacchanalia has been sharply focused into one event, the competition.
Competing in Memphis this year are:
