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The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest has crowned a grand prize winner after hundreds of dedicated pitmasters sweated through smoke to be named the best in pork. Brad Orrison and Brooke Lewis, a brother and sister who led a team from Mississippi, won the grand championship on Saturday, the third time they have cooked their way to the big prize. Considered one of the premiere cooking contests in the U.S., teams from around the country and internationally spend days working on huge whole hogs, massive slabs of shoulder and cuts of ribs in the heat and sometimes rain of Memphis, Tennessee. Orrison and Lewis say the “the Super Bowl of Swine” is friendly but fierce. Read moreGrand champion crowned the best in pork at barbecue world championship in Memphis