Literary/Culinary Mash-Up2018 Literary/Culinary Mash-Up Tickets are now on sale!

By popular demand, the 2018 Literary/Culinary Mash-Up dinner will be returning to Belmont Plantation in historic Greenville, Mississippi!  Enjoy great music, our stellar lineup of authors, artists, and chefs, terrific hors d’oeuvres, and specialty cocktails (as well as a full bar, of course) all while immersed in the beauty of Belmont’s stunning parlors and porches. Next, sit down to a three-course plated Delta Harvest dinner on Belmont’s gorgeous grounds.
This year, our team of star chefs includes: Jason Goodenough of Carrollton Market in New Orleans, Mason Hereford of Turkey and the Wolf in New Orleans, the Delta’s own Cole Ellis of Delta Meat Market fame; James Beard Award winner Rebecca Wilcomb and David Rouse of New Orleans’s Herbsaint.

Friday's always popular panel discussion and luncheon will enliven the halls of Jake & Freda Stein Hall at the historic E. E. Bass Auditorium and Arts Center. The day includes four lively panel discussions and a delicious Delta lunch prepared by Allen Sanders, Executive Chef of Greenville’s Downtown Grille.

CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON BOTH EVENTS

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2017 Delta Hot Tamale Festival Contest Winners

 Grand Champion

• O’Shiela

Commercial Division (Meat)

• First place: McGaugh Grocery
• Second place: Solly's Hot Tamales
• Third place: Sho-Nuff Hot Tamales

Home Hots Division (Meat)

• First place: O’Shiela
• Second place: Meka Tamales
• Third place: The Tamale Shakk

Commercial Other Division

• First place: Katie's Kitchen

Home Hots Other Division

• First place: Lost Cat Hot Tamale Company
• Second place: Hot Tamale King

Best Presentation

• Lost Cat Hot Tamale Company

Hot Tamale Eating Contest

• Dectric Boldien, 29 Tamales in 5 Minutes

Hot Tamale Pageants

• Miss Hot Tamale:  Grayce Redwine
  
• Junior Miss Hot Tamale:  Sophia Hines
  
• Little Miss Hot Tamale:  Meredith Forman
• Tiny Miss Hot Tamale:  Jaria Fulton

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2018 Partners

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