Fire Up the FlavourBourke’s Butchery Cook Off Triumphs for a Third Consecutive Year

Kyhal Hayman, Ellie Samuelsson, Edward Jonson and Callum Driscoll. Photo supplied

tory and p ictures Darren Masters The Western Herald

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Last Saturday, the Port of Bourke Hotel shimmered under clear blue skies, a sea of bbq’s, smokers and every cooking apparatus one could possibly think of. The 3rd Annual Bourke’s Butchery Cook-Off was in full swing.

The beers flowed all around with smoke, thick and fragrant with the promise of barbecue bliss, curled lazily into the blue sky, the fragrance apparent through the whole town.

Among the competitors, Mayor Lachlan Ford, his face beaming amidst the smoky haze, surveyed his creations with a satisfied smirk. His melt-in-your-mouth slow-cooked beef was indeed legendary, a secret recipe highly guarded.

“Wow, that’s amazing, what’s in it”? I asked. […]

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