re: Pork and sausage Jambalaya in Gonzales? Blonde or dark?

I do, my uncles company sponsors us. They pay our $300 entry fee and get us some nice shirts made.

There a growing resentment among the "regular" cooks at the festival because they think the best cooks aren't necessarily advancing out of the first round. Their reason is that everybody owns and has perfected the ten gallon pot and when they advance to the next round, they have to borrow equipment to cook and turn out a crappy jamb. Gets even worse if the make it to the finals and have to cook an even larger pot. I know people in the JFA who work the festival and there is some truth to this. They have to throw away more and more jambs from the second round and even the finals because these cooks aren't experienced in cooking the larger pots.

Very funny, because I cooked at an extremely small competition this past Saturday and everybody was using 5 gallon pots and I cooked up a full 20 gallon batch and smoked all of them.

I guess I misunderstood. I assumed you meant the JFA passed the "regular" cooks to the next round because they're less likely to "mess it up".

Ralphs has the best jambalaya in Gonzales. So whatever they do.

Do you absolutely need a sponsor? How does that work? You go to a business and ask them to put up your entry fee? If you do need one can you just put up the money and ask some company to slap their name on your little poster?

you do not need a sponcer
you can put up your own $300.00
but that up to you
I never use a darking agent