2009 Team Entry Fee Lowered

NEW LOWER TEAM PRICE FOR 2009
 
McAllen, TX

We are having a good response in Registrations this year. And WE THANK YOU !!

I know that having registration forms filled, paid, and in house this early, is a GOOD thing.
We have doubled our size in available room for BBQ Pits, Trailers, Big Rigs, and those back yard pits too.

Now, listen up !!   This year, I want to hit this out of the park, and I know many are worried about the economy. So [...]

2009 First Entry and All Systems Are GO !!

McAllen, TX –

The cooking team of RC Truck Brokerage of Pharr is the first official entry into this year’s RGV Cook-Off at PalmFest. Also known as The Fajita Cook-Off and The BBQ Cook-Off, the RGV Cook-Off will be held during PalmFest International Folk life Celebration October 3-4 at the new McAllen Convention Center on the Expressway and Ware Road.

This cook-off is the oldest and longest running cooking competition of its kind in the Valley and the state. This [...]

RGV Cookoff at PalmFest Proclaimed State Championship

RGV Cookoff at PalmFest Proclaimed State Championship

McAllen, TX –

It’s official! On April 8, 2009, The Senate of the State of Texas issued a proclamation designating the RGV Cookoff at PalmFest aka The Fajita Cookoff and The BBQ Cookoff, as a State Championship Cookoff.

Here is what Lynn Shivers, of the International BBQ Cookers Association has to
say about this and what it means for the Teams that compete in this event.

" Being a State Champion will create [...]

Host Hotel for 2009

SpringHill Suites by Marriott

We  would like to thank you for choosing the SpringHill Suites by Marriott.
We take great pride in serving our guest it is our number one priority.

Your Palm Fest preferred rate for October 3 & 4 2009   $ 85.00  

Regular rate is $109.00

SpringHill Suites by Marriott
1800 S. Ware
McAllen, Tx 7850
956-682-6336

Please ask for the PalmFest rate.
 
Thank You
In the Spirit of Hospitality

Francy Jones

HERE ARE A FEW MAPS TO HELP YOU.

We will [...]

RGV Cookoff is a TX State BBQ Championship Competition

05/01/2009
McAllen, Tx

It’s Official !!  RGV Cookoff, organizational entity, that owns The Fajita Cookoff and The BBQ Cookoff, has been declared a Texas State BBQ Championship Competition.

Smokin’ since 1976, this year marks a new milestone for the RGV Cookoff at PalmFest in McAllen.  First of all, we have been proclaimed a “State Championship Cookoff by the
Texas State Senate”.

This means the Grand Champion of this cookoff will automatically be invited to compete in the American Royal Invitational in Kansas City, Mo. [...]

RGV Cookoff Trophies for 2008

The Most Coveted Award at
The RGV Cookoff

McAllen, TX – James Cameron, owner of Camco Wheel and Axle is committed!  Not to a mental hospital, although some think he should, but to making the most unique and “tricked out” trophy he has ever made for The Fajita Cook Off this year. 

The trophies are being sponsored by L & F Distributors and will include their logo branded into the wooden stand.

This year the [...]

H.E.B. will be at Palmfest 2008

09/04/2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

McAllen – HEB Food Stores will be one of the primary food concessionaires at this year’s PalmFest International Folklife Celebration, scheduled for October 4-5 at the new McAllen Convention Center.

HEB will be serving up gorditas, chicharrón, ice cream pops, fruit cups, and other delicious items.  Hey! Sport Concession and Catering will be providing fajita tacos, chicken tacos, turkey legs, sausage, and corn dogs at the event as well.

If you are interested [...]

2008 – McAllen 4th of July Parade Entry

4th of July 2008
City of McAllen Parade

Here we are at the 2008 McAllen City of Palms
4th of July Parade.
Chris Julian, Organizer and Richard Womeldorf, Gen Manager

This is the Palmfest entry into the parade.
We had a moment before the rain started AGAIN.
In the ‘ole days the Fajita Cookoff would have been held on this weekend. [...]

Cloned Beef Article

Here is a new article about the crazy idea of cloning beef.
Article was published in THE MONITOR newspaper on 01/20/2008
Here is the link to the article

To eat clone or to not?

John S. DeMott
January 20, 2008 – 3:01PM

Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said it’s OK to eat cloned pigs, cattle and goats, what will be the impact on the grand and smoky tradition of the Texas barbecue?

More specifically, how will genetically engineered beef hit McAllen’s Fajita [...]