Something New

Hello everyone. Today we begin something new. This blog is intended for participants and others interested in the annual West Virginia Cast Iron Cookoff (CIC) which is held each year in late in January. The CIC is a showcase for West Virginia grown foods and the format is that of a chef's or team competition. The end result is the preparation of incredible dishes and meals which are served to the CIC judges. Its a way for WV producers to meet and collaborate with chefs and users of their farm products. As you can well imagine, many months of preparation and planning goes into an event such as this. This blog will serve as a journal of that planning and preparation and will afford us all an opportunity to communicate and collaborate about the event as well as to share any relevant information. You'd be encouraged to use a RSS or News Reader to subscribe to the blog so that you can be automatically notified when new information or a new article has been posted. Bloglines, Google Reader, or My Yahoo are all examples of RSS readers. They bring updates to you, as opposed to the reader having to go and look for them. Future posts will describe the event and all details related to the CIC. It will all come together in the CIC blog and will be available for you to reference at any time. So let's begin.