{"id":6295,"date":"2012-06-09T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2012-08-31T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:16:47","slug":"california-bbq-cook-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-bbq-cook-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"California BBQ Cook Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ribcook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you a meat eater (carnivore) who loves BBQ ribs? It&#8217;s all about SMOKE and the SMOKIN&#8217; when you enter the world of rib contests in California. Though great ribs are hard to come by on a daily basis, you&#8217;ll think you died and went to rib heaven when you attend one of California&#8217;s mean beef or pork cooking competitions.\u00a0 Slightly salty, sweet &amp; sticky, a little smoky and finger-lickin&#8217; good, the ribs won&#8217;t disappoint this summer as the race heats up for out-of-this-world tastes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-BBQ-cookoffs.html\">BBQ Cookoff Competitions<\/a> to chech out:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OAKHURST &#8211; Rib-Fest June 23, 2012\u00a0 oakhurstchamber.com<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CLARA &#8211; Silicon Valley BBQ Championships and Car Show June 29-30, 2012\u00a0 svbbq.com<\/li>\n<li>ANAHEIM &#8211; Kansas City BarBQ Competition June 29 &#8211; July 1, 2012 thephoenixclub.com<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND BBQ State Championship July 7, 2012\u00a0 bayareabbq.org<\/li>\n<li>HANFORD &#8211;\u00a0 BBQ Cookoff at Kings Fair Grounds July, 8 2012\u00a0 steve@kingsriverproduce.com<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA &#8211;\u00a0 Wine Country Big Q\u00a0 July 14, 2012\u00a0 winecountrybigq.com<\/li>\n<li>PENN VALLEY &#8211;\u00a0 Smokin in the Oaks July 21, 2012 smokinintheoaks.com<\/li>\n<li>ANGELS CAMP &#8211;\u00a0 Blues and Bones Festival July 21, 2012\u00a0 bluesandbones.com<\/li>\n<li>MAMMOTH &#8211; California&#8217;s Highest Rib Cook-Off\u00a0 July 27, 2012\u00a0 Mammothvillagefest.com<\/li>\n<li>MONTAGUE &#8211;\u00a0 Siskiyou Beef Country Cook-Off\u00a0 July 28\u00a0 montaguerotary.com<\/li>\n<li>VISTA &#8211;\u00a0 Smokin&#8217; Q Classic\u00a0 August 4, 2012<\/li>\n<li>CLAYTON &#8211; Rib Cook-Off\u00a0 August 11, 2012\u00a0 claytoncbca.org or www.clayonclubsaloon.com<\/li>\n<li>CAMPO &#8211;\u00a0 BBQ Cookoff\u00a0 August 11, 2012\u00a0 at Golden Acorn<\/li>\n<li>STOCKTON &#8211; Way Out West BBQ Championship August 18, 2012<\/li>\n<li>GUERNEVILLE &#8211; Russian River Beer Revival and BBQ Cookoff\u00a0\u00a0 August 18, 2012\u00a0 stumptown.com<\/li>\n<li>WESTMINSTER\u00a0 &#8211; Ribs, Pigs and Watermelons\u00a0 August 18, 2012\u00a0 rpwbbq.com<\/li>\n<li>LAKEPORT &#8211; Smokin&#8217; on the Water BBQ Championship August\u00a0 25, 2012, Call: (707) 262-1900 x1113<\/li>\n<li>EL DORADO HILLS &#8211; Ribstock \u00a0 September 15, 2012\u00a0 rib-stock.com<\/li>\n<li>PLACERVILLE &#8211; September\u00a0 22, 2012\u00a0 Smokin&#8217; For Gold at El Dorado County Farigrounds<\/li>\n<li>GRASS VALLEY- Classic Rib Cook-off\u00a0\u00a0 September 23, 2012\u00a0 Nevada County Fairgrounds<\/li>\n<li>DANA POINT\u00a0 \u00a0 BBQ Championships September 29, 2012<\/li>\n<li>NEEDLES\u00a0 Rt. 66 Music Brews &amp; BBQ Championship Series October 6, 2012<\/li>\n<li>SANTEE &#8211; Santee Car Show &amp; BBQ Championship October 13, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a meat eater (carnivore) who loves BBQ ribs? It&#8217;s all about SMOKE and the SMOKIN&#8217; when you enter the world of rib contests in California. Though great ribs are hard to come by on a daily basis, you&#8217;ll think you died and went to rib heaven when you attend one of California&#8217;s mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}