SALISBURY, MD. Fortieth
birthdays cause to
worry a bit, but in the base of the
Delmarva Chicken Festival, 40 is a
time when things just fall into
stride. Autumnlike weather, large
crowds and a cast of 25 chicken
cooking contest hopefuls com
bined to produce one of the best
festivals ever.
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40th
Birthday For Delmarva Chicken Festival
Perhaps in honor of the festi
val’s acquiring a new “world’s
largest frying pan,” the three win
ners of the cooking contest all used
frying pans to prepare their prize
recipes before a crowd of
thousands.
The host city of Salisbury,
Maryland, site of the 1949 festival
which introduced the nation’s first
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chicken cooking contest, took
things in stride with its 9th edition
of an event that flowed without a
hitch.
A Cumberland, Rhode Island art
teacher, Mrs. Muriel Brody, took
top honors in the cooking contest
with a dish titled (very appropri
ately) “Olympic Seoul Chicken.”
It was her first ever entry in a cook-
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ing contest.
Second place honors in the
cooking contest went to Marjorie
Farr of Rockville, Maryland, who
developed her “Chicken With
Fruit and Mixed Mustards” recipe
as part of her search for healthier
recipes. An Enosburg East, Ver
mont, nurse, Raymonde F. Wood
ward, produced the third place
recipe, “Chicken Timatar.”
Also playing a major role in the
serious side of the Chicken Festi
val was a group of more than SO
food editors from across the coun
try who came to observe the con
test and learn first hand the dynam
ics of Delmarva’s immense broiler
chicken production industry.
The Chicken Festival and its
cooking contest honor an industry
which provides more than 20,000
jobs in the region and produces
almost half a billion chickens each
year with a 1987 value of over $1
billion.
Debuting this year was a new
frying pan built by the folks at the
Mumford Sheet Metal Works of
Selbyville, Delaware, builder of
the first one in 1950. The 1988
model got a good workout from the
members of the Salisbury Lions
Club who fried thousands of chick
ens in it for three days straight.
No chicken festival is without
its lighter moments and this year
was no exception. Ronald McDo
nald strolled the grounds to the
delight of children and a giant cos
tumed chicken was also in
evidence.
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came up with the newest event, a
50-foot egg drop in which those
brave enough to try it tried catch
ing eggs dropped by the station’s
Dave Parks suspended in a chair by
a giant crane. Those who caught
the raw eggs, without breaking
them, won $5O in cash.
The ever-popular Olympics of
Delmarva poultrydom, “Chicken
Capers,” featured crowing con
tests, egg toss matches, spoon
races, a relay which saw many
eggs splattered, many contestants
fall by the wayside, but no eggs
bruised.
When it came to the capers'
matches featuring teams from the
various poultry processing compa
nies, the Cargill processing plant
of Harbeson, Delaware took the
laurels. Honors in the event for
growout teams were taken by the
Perdue Farms team.
For the children, the chicken
scratch event saw a record set by
Jason Opel, 10, of Princess Anne,
Maryland, who dove into a heap of
dusty feed meal and emerged with
$2.65 in assorted coins.
Hosting the4olh festival was the
Salisbury Area Chamber of Com
merce which used Dean Gray and
Keith lott was co-chairman to
make the thousand and one
arrangements involved.
Dr. Keith E. Rinehart, president
of the Delmarva Poultry Industry,
Inc., the sponsor organization, put
things in perspective by noting,
“The Chicken Festival allows us to
take time out to celebrate the poul-
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