{"id":396862,"date":"2026-08-03T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396862\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:26:11","slug":"southern-living-taps-camila-mcconaughey-for-tailgate-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396862\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Living taps Camila McConaughey for tailgate event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Living is adding some major star power to its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernlivingtailgate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hill Country Tailgate<\/a>, the magazine\u2019s new barbecue and football celebration taking place September 26 at Contigo Ranch in Fredericksburg. Author and entrepreneur Camila Alves McConaughey has signed on as the event\u2019s co-host.<\/p>\n<p>Although McConaughey may be best known for failing to lose her husband Matthew in 10 days, she is an apt choice for a Texas food festival. Her lifestyle website, <a href=\"https:\/\/womenoftoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Women of Today,<\/a> is a popular hub for recipes and cooking tips, and the toddler foods company she founded with Agatha Achindu, Yummy Spoonfuls, is found on shelves nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>She even hosted a barbecue competition show for the Food Network, albeit with kid competitors instead of the top-tier pitmasters headed to Contigo Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>McCounaughey will be joined by two new additions to the culinary line-up. Seth Siegel-Gardner of Houston\u2019s Local Foods Group was tapped as the event\u2019s culinary director, and Austin-based chef and personality Jess Pryles will be representing her Hardcore Carnivore brand.<\/p>\n<p>Announced in April, the inaugural Hill Country Tailgate features a lineup of chefs with James Beard, Texas Monthly, and Michelin recognition under their belts, including Austinites Ali Clem of la Barbecue, Evan LeRoy of LeRoy and Lewis, and Kareem El-Ghayesh of KG BBQ; Kelli Nevarez of Port Lavaca\u2019s LaVaca BBQ, and Adrian Torres of Houston\u2019s M\u00e1ximo.<\/p>\n<p>The event pairs the smoked meats with cocktails, live music from David Lewis and All Hat No Cadillac, and college football on a big screen. Tickets also include a complimentary tour of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonio.culturemap.com\/news\/real-estate\/southern-living-idea-house-fredericksburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Southern Living Idea House<\/a> in Fried\u00ebn, a 130-acre Fredericksburg development featuring parks, nature trails, and lakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernlivingtailgate.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a> to the one-day event are $195, inclusive of barbecue tastings and drinks (we\u2019re guessing at least one booth will be sampling the McCounaugheys Pantalones Tequila). The shindig runs 6-10 pm at Contigo Ranch, 13454 Lower Crabapple Rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern Living is adding some major star power to its first Hill Country Tailgate, the magazine\u2019s new barbecue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1068,6980,64,4390,4178,278,82,84,83,81418],"class_list":["post-396862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-barbecue","tag-celebrities","tag-events","tag-fredericksburg","tag-hill-country","tag-music","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-southern-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}