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Team Spotlight
The Southern Girls BBQ Roadshow would like to start a new tradition of spotlighting a competition BBQ team each month. The last competition I attended was the “Smoking with Smithfield” Champi- onship in New Orleans, LA. The first team featured was one of the lucky 24 invited to participate. If you’d like to have your team spotlighted, please send V an email at southerngirls@barbecuenews.com.
Vernee Green Myers
Southern Girls BBQ Roadshow
southerngirls@ barbecuenews.com
Wolf’s Revenge BBQ
TEAM NAME?
“Everyone knows the story of the Three Little Pigs, but like all good classics, a little imagination can bring a whole new perspective, so we thought: what if the brick house was turned into a smoke house and that’s how wolf got his revenge! And so, Wolf’s Revenge BBQ was born.”
TEAM MEMBERS?
Chiles Cridlin – Founding mem- ber, head cook, owns his own In- formation Technology, Governor-endorsed authentic Brunswick Stew “Stewmaster.” Randy Grigg – Photographer, Scuba Diving Instructor, and Team Driver.
Barry Bernstein – International Supply Chain Consultant with a background in Biochemistry. He is also a member of the oldest foodie club that dates back to the 1400s.
HOW THEY GOT STARTED?
Before cooking BBQ, Chiles Cridlin was a “Stew Master” who cooked authentic Brunswick Stew with the Procla- mation Stew Crew in Virginia. In 2006, the Stew Crew was invited to the Big Apple BBQ event in New York to cook Brunswick Stew each day. During the Big Apple BBQ, the Proclamation Stew Crew’s site was between 17th Street Barbecue and Big Bob Gibson’s. You could say that after spending the weekend talking to Mike
Mills and Chris Lilly that Chiles was bitten by the BBQ bug.
FIRST COMP?
Que and Cruz in Louisa, VA in 2008 under team name of Big C’s Stew n Q
(They changed their name to Wolf’s Revenge BBQ after a family member pointed out the team logo wasn’t exactly child- friendly)
MOST MEMORABLE WIN?
Chiles said, “Under the name Wolf’s Revenge BBQ, we cooked 44 comps before we got our first Grand in Lenoir, NC at ‘Smoking in the Foothills.’ That has to be the most special because it got us into ‘The Jack,’ it got us into the American Royal, it was our first Grand Champion, and we have gone on to win that competition three times.”
Randy said, “Getting two 180s at the Sonny’s Contest in 2018: A “perfect perfect” in Ribs and a “180” in Brisket. Winning our first contest in Lenoir, NC with over 700 was fantastic and then doing it two more years in a row was amazing. We definitely wanted to go this year, but sometimes life gives you too many good choices. We decided to go to the Royal Oak Invitational and that turned our pretty darn great!”
Barry summed it up best when he said, “For me the
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