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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 23 Local man wins California barbecue competition By Jodi Schneider McNamee Correspondent Trails End BBQ Company proprietor Carl Perry of Sisters used his barbecue skills in the San Juan Bautista Rib Cook-off and won first place in both ribs and sauce. The well-established event highlighted professional rib teams from California, Oregon and Nevada that served over 8,000 pounds of ribs dripping in secret sauces during the cook-off promoted by Williams LTD. And Perry sold 800 racks of St. Louis style ribs during the two-day event. “It takes a lot of work and a lot of help. I had a great team of 12 that put their heart and soul into the competition and it felt so wonderful to hear our ticket number called as winner,” Perry told The Nugget. “We try so hard to get just the right formula for the sauce.” And that isn’t the easiest thing to do when you’re craft- ing 30 gallons of your secret sauce in just two days. The self-taught cook has been perfecting his barbeque sauce for years and plans to manufacture the product in the future. “It’s a sauce that I devel- oped using a dozen different ingredients and is quite a pro- cess to make,” he said. And no, he wouldn’t give his secret sauce ingredients to The Nugget’s reporter. Perry has been entering the annual cook-off in the San Juan Bautista rib competition for 14 years. The rib cook-off is always a blind competition. “They attach a ticket to each container and nobody knows who turned in the ribs or sauce,” Perry said. “Other than that, they have the People’s Choice Award that Trails End BBQ won the year LETTERS Continued from page 2 s s s To the Editor: What happened to Walden? People say Greg Walden used to be a mod- erate Republican. What made him change into one of the most conservative representatives in Congress? Is he positioning himself for a high- paying industry job? Did he stop caring about regular people? What happened to change him so drastically? Walden is one of the main writers of the new healthcare law that makes it impossible for many people to afford medical attention. In his own district, about 64,000 people could lose coverage. That’s a LOT of people. He also voted in favor of not covering pre-exist- ing conditions. Only an uncaring, career politi- cian out of touch with his neighbors in Oregon could do something that cold. In the financial world, Walden does not seem to care about protecting us from big banks and lenders. He voted to roll back banking and borrowing regulations put in place after the Great Recession. That sad and scary time was only a few years ago, but he’s already forgotten how many of his voters suffered. As for global warming, Walden must not believe it’s really happening because he nearly before. “We set up on a Friday night and started cooking at 2 a.m.,” Perry said. “You’re pretty much running on adrenaline the whole week- end. My right-hand man, Sean Hill from Redmond, showed up at 6:30 Saturday morning after I got the first batch going so that at 10 a.m. when the event opened we had two cookers full of ribs.” Perry cooks the ribs in the smokers for four hours, and before he serves the tender- ized meat, the racks are put on a grill for about five min- utes to caramelize the sauce. Trails End BBQ displayed three different sauces at the competition: mild, medium, and hot. Perry’s barbecue career kicked off accidently when a friend needed him to step up and barbecue ribs at the Deschutes County Fair in 2001. always votes against protecting us from this catastrophe. Not even fires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes can scare him into voting to save us and our world. What does he care about? Paula Surmann s s s To the Editor: Our mom was introduced to Sisters and the surrounding area when she and her hus- band married 16 years ago. This is their pri- mary vacation spot and where they wish to retire, and they want to be able to share Sisters with their children and future family generations. We understand that the Sisters council has proposed changes to current rules that will dis- allow short-term vacation rentals permits to be transferred with the property. Future genera- tions, such as us, need a time buffer between inheritance and retirement. The proposed changes will eliminate that time buffer and create an unaffordable inheritance for a vaca- tion home. By limiting Sisters’ visitors to hotels and motels, you eliminate family and friends shar- ing time together in a group experience. Please reconsider the limitations that this current proposal will impose on future genera- tions’ ability to enjoy such a beautiful area. Angelina Haugstad Jason Nerida PHOTO BY PROVIDED Carl Perry is a recognizable figure at many Sisters events. His Trails End BBQ Company recently won a cook-off competition in California. “My friend was just fin- ishing up a big event in Washington and just didn’t have the time to set up that year,” he recalled. Perry gave it a shot on one day’s notice and the rest, as they say, is history. Perry bought one of his friend’s smokers and has been serving up ribs at Sisters Rodeo and the Deschutes County Fair ever since.
