Garlic Cook Off Events


2011 Grill-off participants

Congratulations to Jeremy Esterly of Paragon Wine Bar for winning the Grass-fed Beef Grill-Off on Saturday and Ali Barker of Radius Restaurant for winning the Pork Grill-Off on Sunday!

Congratulations are also in order for George Nagy from In Forno won Saturday’s Pizza Bake off and Barbara Vida from Sweet Visions Cupcakes and more won the Bake Off contest on Sunday.

The creativity of ALL the participating chefs and their dishes was phenomenal! Cleveland is lucky to have such culinary talent in our city. Thank you to our other participants and judges:


Saturday – Grass-fed Beef

Judging: 1:30 - 2:30 PM


COMPETITORS

Scott Kim
SASA

Matthew Anderson
UMAMI

Tony Fortner
Zanzibar

Jeremy Esterly
Paragon Wine Bar

JUDGES

Joe Crea
Food critic for The Plain Dealer

ReNita Binns-Stiggers

Anna Kim
Sous Chef, Downtown Cleveland Marriott

Sharon Van Meter


Sunday – Pasture raised heirloom pork

Judging: 12:30 - 1:00 PM


COMPETITORS

Brian Doyle
Sowfood

Ali Barker
Radius

Melissa Khoury
AMP 150

Jonathan Buchner
CK’s Steakhouse at
Renaissance Quail Hollow Resort

JUDGES

Stefanie Paganini
International Culinary Arts and Science Institute

Jonathan Sawyer
Chef, Owner of The Greenhouse Tavern

Doug Katz
Chef, Owner of Fire




2011 Chef Tent Schedule

Saturday

2:00 - 3:00 Pizza Bake Off Judging
3:00 - 4:00 Chef Demo by La Campagna’s Carmella Fragassi
4:00 - 5:00 Mighty Locavores Cooking Lesson
5:00 - 6:00 Vitamix Chef Competition
6:00 - 6:45 American Wine School’s Marianne Frantz
7:00 - 8:00 Chef Demo by The Good Fork’s Mary Wills
8:00 - 9:00 Demo by Whole Foods Market


Sunday

1:00 - 2:00 Garlic Braiding by Holmes County Garlic’s Marty LaVigne
2:00 - 3:00 Euro Wines Cheese Expert
3:00 - 4:00 Mr. Zub’s Deli demo
4:00 - 5:00 Chef Demo by Sowfood’s Brian Doyle
5:00 - 6:00 Chef Demo by The Chubby Cook’s Scott Groth


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