The Melbourne Barbecue Festival is all about meat, smoke, summer and good times. The inaugural event will involve a delicious four-day program of classes, competitions and entertainment that will all end with a huge barbecue.
Inspired by the growing popularity of traditional southern style cuisine in Australia, the festival is modeled after the many American barbecue festivals staged annually across the United States and will be a celebration of local produce and the great Australian tradition of summer barbecues.
The Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS), the world’s largest organisation of barbecue enthusiasts, are supporting the event and as well as a barbecue cook-off that will see the winner invited to represent Australia at barbecue contests in the United States, they will also be holding barbecue-cooking classes led by multi-award winning pit-master Jim Johnson, barbecue-judging classes and Australian Barbecue Academy classes hosted by Australian food commentator Bob Hart.
