DES MOINES, Iowa — Over the past 62 years, more than 2,000 participants have competed at the Iowa Farm Bureau Cookout Contest. This year marked a full-circle moment for a couple of the chefs.
Barbecue can be unpredictable, but not as unpredictable as Ava Weitl. Cooking meat is a hobby Christina DeShaw never considered for her 14-year-old daughter.
“She said, ‘I want to learn how to barbecue,'” DeShaw recalled, “and I thought, you want to do what?”…