Branson Daybreakers Rotary Club Chili Cook-Off Features Unique Recipes

Branson Daybreakers Rotary Club Chili Cook-Off Saturday (Photos By: Monte Schisler)

Garrett Anderson's pot of sweet chili, deemed unique by judge's panel

Rotarian Garrett Anderson tries to share his chili recipe

Chili Cook-Off Judges Table

Hollister Mayor David Tate serves as a judge for this year's event

By: Monte Schisler, News Director
Posted: Monday, February 20, 2012

What’s it take to make a good pot of chili ? For a handful of members of the Branson Daybreakers Rotary Club it’s hours of simmering on low heat, or the spices that have been handed down from generation to generation, others say it’s several not so secret ingredients like corn, a cut up hotdog, pineapple and some brown sugar.

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Rotarian Garrett Anderson entered this year’s chili cookoff, held over the weekend in Branson. When asked to share his recipe with HometownDailyNews.com, he couldn’t – nothing is down on paper.

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Anderson didn’t win this year’s chili cook-off, but the Branson area did. The Daybreakers Rotary Club hoped to raise 3-thousand dollars at the event – the club’s single largest one day fundraiser for the year, with the money going to help out non-profit organizations like the Boys and Girls Club,CAM, Loaves and Fishes, and the Women’s Crisis Center.

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The Golden Corral is the commercial division winner for the annual Branson Daybreakers Rotary Club Chili Cookoff. The event was held over the weekend, with the club raising an estimated 3-thousand dollars for the various local non-profit organizations it supports through the year.

Rotarian Tony Espey was one of several cooks trying to win the coveted prize as top amateur – his batch of traditional chili was the judge’s favorite:

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Rotarian Bill Rohlfing was crowned the overall winner by public vote. The chili-cookoff is the club’s single largest one-day fundraiser for the year.

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The Branson Daybreakers Rotary Club raised an estimated 3-thousand dollars at its annual Chili Cook-Off and Bake Sale, held over the weekend at the Lion’s Club building on Mount Branson.

Rotarian Tony Espey says this is the single largest one-day fundraiser the club has all year, helping out several local non-profit agencies:

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Organizations helped out in the past include Loaves and Fishes, CAM, The Women’s Crisis Center and the Boys and Girls Club.

This year’s commercial winner in the chili cook-off was the Golden Corral, while Rotarian Bill Rohlfing took home the overall public vote. Espey was the winner of the judge’s award.

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The Branson Daybreakers Rotary Club raised an estimated 3-thousand dollars at its annual Chili Cook-Off and Bake Sale, held over the weekend at the Lion’s Club building on Mount Branson.

Rotarian Tony Espey says this is the single largest one-day fundraiser the club has all year, helping out several local non-profit agencies.

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