One year later
Barbecue season starts tonight. I’ll bet you didn’t know there was a season for barbecue. Heck, if you’re like me, barbecue is in season year round! But the competition season starts tonight with the ancillary judging at the South Mississippi Boucherie. It’s a relatively new contest but it’s become one of the biggest and best contests of the year. I was a judge for the first Boucherie in 2019. In 2020, because of covid, it was canceled. I was back in 2021, 2022, and last year. Last year is what I want to talk about today. I’ll never forget that morning. The Boucherie (French for butcher) is held the last Saturday in March. Last year was a beautiful, sunny spring day after a night of heavy rain and strong storms. On the way there, I heard on the radio that a tornado had hit the town of Rolling Fork in the Mississippi Delta causing widespread damage. My son works in Rolling Fork as a service technician for the John Deere ...