{"id":108748,"date":"2026-02-08T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108748\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:39:09","slug":"downtown-easton-unites-for-30-year-chili-tradition-and-local-charity-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108748\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Easton unites for 30-year chili tradition and local charity | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; A tasty Super Bowl tradition played out once again on Sunday in downtown Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Chili lovers gathered inside Bank Street Annex for the Easton Chili Cookoff.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly three decades, the event was put on by Pearly Baker&#8217;s Alehouse.<\/p>\n<p>But the restaurant decided not to participate this year.<\/p>\n<p>So the annex teamed up with the Greater Easton Development Partnership to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 20 different restaurants competed for bragging rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Easton is a shared downtown for a lot of communities and this is representative of what we do in downtown Easton, bringing people together for a fun event and raising money for a good cause,&#8221; said Jared Mast, executive director of the Greater Easton Development Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the cookoff will benefit the GEDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; A tasty Super Bowl tradition played out once again on Sunday in downtown Easton. Chili&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-108748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}