After delay, attendees flock to annual winter culinary event at the Ithaca Commons.

For the first time in the Ithaca Chili Cook-off’s 13-year history, the event has been cancelled Saturday due to concerns about high gusts of wind in the area.

On Saturday afternoon, people enticed by the aroma of thirty different types of chili filed into the Commons in Ithaca. The eleventh annual Ithaca Chili Cook-off and WinterFest, sponsored by The Cayuga Radio Group and Maines Paper and Food Service, Inc., was held in downtown Ithaca. Among the 30 restaurants competing for the titles of Best Chili and Wings in the People’s Choice, Vegetarian and Meat and the Official Judging competition, were the East Shore Café, That Burrito Place, and the Statler’s Taverna Banfi.