Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest

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The Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest is an annual regional event held each May since 2002^[1] on the grounds of the Brady C. Jefcoat Museum in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.^[2][3] It is noted as a showcase to sample the type of cooking the region is famous for.^[4]

Largely a barbecue cooking contest, funds from the event benefit the maintenance and operation of the Museum. Judgement of the winner is performed by 3 certified, licensed judges selected from a list of approved judges from the North Carolina Pork Council.^[5]

In 2010, the first place prize was awarded as a tie for the first time to Fred Woodard of Smithfield, Virginia and J.W. Condon of Newport, North Carolina.^[6] The competition is sanctioned by the North Carolina Pork Council^[7] and is part of the Whole Hog Barbecue Series^[8] where the winners of this competition compete for the state championship in Raleigh each October.^[7] Several winners of the Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest have won the state championship including one year where the first, second and third place winners of the state championship were from this competition.^[5]

No event was held 2020-2023 because of the pandemic but it was reinstated in 2024.^[9]