Meet the Porker Chefs
These Porker Chefs have contributed time, effort, recipes,
money, sweat, sleep, spices, raw meat
and beverages to the
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Porker John Shown
here accepting an award at the 2007 American Royal BBQ contest, John is the
instigator porker for the Park Avenue Pork BBQ team. Having spent time earlier in his life with
Tyson, John knows yardbird and the other meats from the molecular level on
out. John
resides in Email
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Porker Steve Shown
here adding lubricant to the cooked BBQ storage area, Steve participates in
all of the Park Avenue Pork events, unless it is too cold . . . . or too
hot . . . . . or too far from home. Steve
resides in Email
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Porker Andrea Serious
and Sober, Andrea is often surprised by her own cooking skills, Porker Andrea
completed the amazing and treacherous race to the dessert turn in line at the
Royal in October, only to realize that she read the sheet wrong and had a
full 30 additional minutes to finish her creation. Andrea
resides in Email
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Porker Lori Lori
specializes in beans. Beans, beans the
magical fruit, the more you eat . . . well you get the picture. Lori
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The Sausage Queen The
Sausage Queen has opened up her royal spice cabinent and helped the team
grind out and stuff it’s own sausage in 2008. The
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Porker Robert Robert
will bring his own brand of Leprechaun insight to the Park Avenue Pork team,
with his debut on the team at the 2008 GAB. We just have to convince Robert that
there is not a contest category for corned beef and cabbage at this
event. Robert
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Porker Ron Shown
here with his other love, Ron has been instrumental in occassionally
providing shelter in the form of a camping trailer so that the Porker’s don’t
have to sleep on the asphalt, dirt and grass so often. Ron was also a big part of the 2007 Ron
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Porker Bruce Bruce
has brought his magic touch to the porker Briskets this summer. We have also been quite interested in the
experiments with some “young meat” that Bruce seemed to be involved with at
the ’08 Lenexa contest. Bruce
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Porker Mitch Probably
one of the least porkiest porkers, “Mysterious Mitch” appears at contests at odd
hours to contribute to the team.
Porker Mitch was almost done in by an oversize dip of skoal at around
9:30 AM the morning of turn-in’s for the American Royal Open contest last
October. Luckily, Mitch survived. Currently
in semi-retirement from competitions, until the ’08 Royal. Mitch
resides in Email
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