Lucinda Oakley cabin will undergo reconstruction from funds raised at an amateur cook-off in Gatlinburg.

GATLINBURG, TN — Calling all amateur cooks! Do you have a favorite soup, stew or cake recipe that everyone begs you to make? Then the “Smoky Mountain Cabin Amateur Cook Off” is a great opportunity to show off your signature dish. The Gatlinburg Garden Club is hosting a cook-off on Tuesday, March 25, 5:00-7:00pm at the Brookside Resort in Gatlinburg.

Your culinary skills will be put to the taste test by local celebrity judges, which include actor, director and producer Bill Landry who is best known for the WBIR-TV Heartland Series, news columnist and author Sam Venable, and local entertainer, Malcolm Link. Everyone is invited to taste, watch and visit with the local celebrity judges. There is a cash prize award for the best of each category.

Proceeds from the Cook Off will fund the Lucinda Oakley Ogle Cabin Restoration Fund. The Gatlinburg Garden Club has preserved the cabin located at the end of Wiley Oakley Road next to the Gatlinburg Welcome Center on the Spur and plan to reconstruct it. Lucinda was the daughter of Wiley Oakley, known as The Roaming Man of the Mountains. The Club has raised about half of the funds needed for the restoration project.

The first ever Smoky Mountain Cook Off is only for amateurs, so anyone can enter a single dish or crock pot meal and/or cake. There is a small entry fee. Rules and registration forms are available at www.gatlinburg.com/gardenclub or visiting the Sevier County Bank Gatlinburg branch. For more information, email Diana Hale at halesangel58@yahoo.com.