Greensboro, NC -- Need another side dish for your super bowl party next Sunday? How about chili!
Meat vendors at the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market (GFM) have teamed with guest cooks and chefs to prepare and serve chili made with local meats and other ingredients available at the market, from 10am to noon on Saturday.
The first event of 2012, the Farmers Market Chili Challenge will give Market patrons a chance to taste each team's chili, then choose their favorites for $1 per vote.
All proceeds will go toward Market improvements.
The GFM is located at 501 Yanceyville Street.
The teams are as follows:
• GFM Chili, goat, bean and tomato chili prepared by GFM board chair David Craft and John Handler of Weatherhand Farms;
• Neighborhood Chili, prepared by Aycock Neighborhood Association President Bert Vanderveen, Marguerite Fields of Rocking F Farm and Patsy Ward of Wards Farm;
• Greensboro's Chili, an all-beef chili made in short order by City Council members Nancy Vaughan, Marikay Abuzuaiter, Jim Kee, and Robert Roth of Rothchild's Angus Farm and Loaf Bakery;
• Lamb Chili, prepared by Cecelia Thompson, local foods writer (Mod Meals on Mendenhall) and Garland McCollum of Massey Creek Farms;
• Tex Mex Chili, prepared by Natalie Foster of Cornerstone Garlic and Kat Siladi of the Edible Schoolyard at the Greensboro Children's Museum;
• Awe-sage Chili, prepared by Brian Quinn of Hillcrest Farm and Dani Strader of Meadows Family Farm;
• Southwestern Chicken Chili, prepared by GTCC Chef LJ Rush and GTCC Culinary School students with Grace Summers of Summers Farm;
• Lucky 32 Veggie Chili, prepared by Jay Pierce of Lucky 32 and Mike Faucette of Faucette Farms.
The "Farmers Market Chili Challenge" is the first in a monthly series of upcoming special events at the Market, which include "Heart to Heart" on Feb. 4; "Eggdelicious!" March 24, and the Spring Arts & Crafts Fair, March 25. A complete listing of events is available on the Market's new website, www.gsofarmersmarket.org.
Officially under new management since Jan. 1, the Market has a long history in Greensboro. The City began the Market in 1874 on Commerce Place in downtown Greensboro, where farmers backed their wagons to the curb to sell produce.
In the 1960's, the Market moved to its current location. Now scores of vendors and hundreds of customers enjoy this indoor market facility.
Local vegetables, meats, prepared foods and crafts are available on Saturdays year round from 6am-noon. From May to December, the Market is open on Wednesdays from 7am-1pm.
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