Short-handed, Zeb still cooks
A bunch of really good folks turned out to make The Picket's first Prison
Boss Campfire Cookoff in Gatesville a big success.
Our thanks to all of you. Y'all come back next year.
Twelve prison boss cooking teams showed up to compete for trophy skillets.
Teams came from way out in the Panhandle, from down around the Piney Woods
and all points in between.
One of those teams was Zeb Rutherford of the Middleton Unit. Turned
out Zeb was a one-man team, a one-man gang.
Going into the competition, Zeb was on a list of four names that comprised
the Middleton cookoff team.
Zeb showed up on Friday pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with a couple
of black steel cooking rigs and a nice big wooden chuck box for his supplies.
Said he didn't know whether the rest of the crew was coming or not. They
never showed.
Zeb waved away the fact like a pesky gnat. "Hell, I don't need
no help!"
Sure enough, Zeb "One-Man Gang" Rutherford didn't miss his
absent teammates. He
settled into the task and cooked up a storm all by his lonesome. (He
even won a trophy skillet, but you can ask him to tell you about that.)
Among all the fine cooking teams, with their potent recipes for smoked
meat and campfire delicacies, that turned out for the Prison Boss Cookoff
last month, none represented the spirit of the Texas Prison Boss better
than Zeb Rutherford of Middleton.
Short-handed and with no backup, Zeb stuck it out and got the job done.
Says he is coming back next year, too, with or without a crew.
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