This weekend is the Gold Coast BBQ and Music Festival in Oxnard, CA. It’s at the Channel Islands Harbor, a fun place (and home of the only chili cookoff I’ve ever won!). It’s a statewide event sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society. Categories include brisket, pork shoulder, chicken, pork ribs, and a separate category for tri-tip (this is CA after all!). Here’s a link of info on it. Hope to see some of my roadfood buddies there. I’ll be easy to recognize—–I’ll be the one wandering around looking like he sampled way too much ‘Que!

http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/events/article/0,1375,VCS_158_2349390,00.html