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TheNational Cornbread Festival is a celebration ofcornbread and cornbread-related activities. The festival, held inSouth Pittsburg, Tennessee from 1997 to 2019 during the last full weekend in April, will resume in 2022. Among the attractions featured at the National Cornbread Festival are:

• The Cornbread Cookoff
• The Cornbread Eating Competition
• The Cornbread 5k Race
• Cornbread Alley (a sampling of various cornbread recipes from local organizations)
• Arts and Crafts from area vendors
• Tours of theLodge Cast Iron Skillet Foundry
• Tours of historic South Pittsburg
• The Cornbread Classic Car Cruise-In
• Live music from performers including perennial favorite, Rhonda Vincent

In the year 2000 the National Cornbread Festival was selected as one of the top 100 events in North America by theAmerican Bus Association.

TheCOVID-19 pandemic was to blame for all cancellations since 2020; the 24th was deferred to April 2022.

• Cornbread Eating Competition

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Chad Campbell of Florence, AL

• Buttermilk Chug

Nicholas Harris of Huntsville, AL

• NPR's Day to Day : Voices from the National Cornbread Festival
• Cofer, Brittany (April 22, 2010)."Police skeptical of Cornbread Fest rumors".Chattanooga Times Free Press. RetrievedApril 22, 2010.

• National Cornbread Festival Official Website

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