IF YOU GO• What: National Cornbread Festival• When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CDT today• Where: Cedar Avenue, South Pittsburg, Tenn. (take Exit 152 off I-24 and follow Highway 72 west for 1.5 miles)• Admission: $5 per day, $2 additional for Cornbread Alley samples.• Website: www.nationalcornbread.com.CORNBREAD COOKOFF WINNERS1st place: Jennifer Peckman, Falls Church Va.Tennessee onion soup gratin2nd Place: Margee Berry, White Salmon, Wash.Caramelized maple apple bacon brunch bake3rd Place: Andria Gaskins, Matthews, N.C.Sausage and spinach calzone cornbreadSource: Cornbread festival
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – Chatter about the week’s deadly storms could be heard at the National Cornbread Festival, but for most Saturday was simply a day to get away for a while.
Cedar Avenue in downtown South Pittsburg was packed almost as soon as organizers opened the 15th annual National Cornbread Festival.
The festival site was crammed with everything from boiled peanut stands to jewelry shops and, of course, cornbread in every conceivable permutation.
“We have a wonderful weekend weatherwise, in contrast to what we had in the region in the last few days,” said festival President Ed Fuller.