Events List

Think you’ve got what it takes to win the Tar Heel Double Pork Challenge at the Mountain State Fair? We’re looking for creative pork recipes – but you’ve got to use two types of pork! Entries can be an appetizer, soup/side, main course or dessert – as long as you showcase pork as two of the main ingredients! The pig’s the limit – bacon, sausage, pork chops, pork loin, ribs, barbecue, Canadian bacon, Italian sausage, we could go on – pick any two (although we won’t penalize you if…

Each Fall, the best whole hog barbecue chefs in North Carolina square off to become our state champion. The Whole Hog Barbecue Championship is the culmination of a qualifying series that includes more than 25 N.C. Pork Council-sanctioned local barbecue competitions. The State Championship will return to Downtown Raleigh as part of the International Blue Grass Festival. Festival goers will have the opportunity to purchase a wristband to sample directly from each cook and help select a people’s choice winner.…

The NC Pork Council will be in the Graham Building to promote North Carolina's pork industry throughout the State Fair.