WFC Announces 2013 Chef's Challenge

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Posted Oct 17, 2013

The World Food Championships announced today details for the 2013 Chef’s Challenge, which will feature 20 celebrated chefs as they show off their culinary craftsmanship at the Fremont Street Experience. As a featured competition at the World Food Championships, these chefs will be competing for a cash prize and a brand new Southern Pride commercial smoker on Nov. 7-10.

Only in Las Vegas can food, fame and fortune be combined into one jackpot event. The second annual World Food Championships invites the champions from the biggest and best food competitions around the

world to Las Vegas for one ultimate defining moment. Following a tournament-style format across seven iconic food categories (BBQ, chili, burger, sandwich, recipe, dessert and bacon), competitors battle for pride, an event prize purse of $300,000 and a shot at TV fame.

Occurring throughout the four-day WFC event, the Chef’s Challenge is a culinary skills expo that includes a mystery basket competition using a product from Creekstone Farms®, partner to the Chef’s Challenge, and other items intended to challenge the chefs’ creativity and recipe development skills. Eight local Las Vegas chefs were chosen to participate through an online nomination process, while another eight chefs were chosen by the WFC from partner hotels and casinos to represent the Fremont Street Experience and Downtown Las Vegas. The remaining four chefs consist of a special invitation group that includes the 2012 World Chef Champion and runner up.

Among the chefs scheduled to appear are:

Daniel Boling – Executive Chef at Torrey Pines in San Diego and 2012 World Chef Champion runner up
Travis Brust – Executive Chef at the Williamsburg Inn and 2012 World Chef Champion
Michael Chen – Chef de Cuisine at Yellowtail Japanese Restaurant and Lounge
Dustin Dechter – Executive Chef at Element by Westin Las Vegas
Michael Edwards – Enlisted Aide to VADM David Buss, Commander of Naval Air Forces
Adam Kaswiner – Private Chef and owner of ChefKas, a boutique chef services company
Paul Maloney – 16 years of honorable service in the US Navy and Personal Chef
David Middleton - Executive Chef at Marche Bacchus
Daniel Ontiveros – Chef at Comme Ca Restaurant Las Vegas
Joe Parrino – Executive Chef at Andiamo Steakhouse at The D Hotel and Casino Las Vegas
Mark Sherline – Director of Culinary Operations at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino
Beni Velasquez – Executive Chef at Bar + Bistro

The public is invited to watch as the 20 chefs go through three rounds of competitions that will challenge their hand skills, recipe development and overall culinary craftsmanship. One winner from each day of competitions will go on to compete on Championship Sunday, Nov. 10, for the $5000 first place prize and a Southern Pride commercial smoker, valued at $11,000.

For more information about the World Food Championships visit: http://www.worldfoodchampionships.com

To stay in the food champ chatter and for more information on the World Food Championships, visit, Facebook.com/WorldFoodChampionships or Twitter (@WorldFoodChamp).

About Creekstone Farms

Creekstone Farms Premium Black Angus Beef is a top-tier beef provider located in Arkansas City, KS. At Creekstone Farms, quality is defined as excellence or superiority and we strive for that level of quality in everything we do. The Creekstone Farms program is unique to the beef industry because it combines superior Black Angus genetics, exceptional cattle management practices, carefully controlled high-quality feeding, and state-of-the-art processing of only genetically verified Black Angus cattle. Everything we do is all in the name of quality and our high standards allow us to produce consistently outstanding products that proudly bear the Creekstone Farms name. You can find Creekstone Farms products at fine restaurants and distributors across the United States, in one of the more than 70 countries we export product to or online at www.creekstonefarms.com.

About Southern Pride

“Genuine Barbecue” means cooking meat at a low temperature and slow with indirect heat and smoke from burning wood, enhancing its taste with a unique smoked flavor that cannot be obtained any other way. That’s why Southern Pride developed a family of Wood Burning BBQ Pits and Smokers for restaurants, caterers, and food service operators that insist on genuine barbecue flavor while being cost-effective. For more information, visit www.southern-pride.com.

About Trybe Targeting

Trybe Targeting was launched in 2009 as the food and enthusiast marketing division of MMA Creative Inc., a 22−year−old marketing and advertising agency with offices in Nashville, Cookeville, Tenn. And Orlando, Fla. Trybe Targeting is the agency of record to the Kansas City Barbeque Society, International Chili Society, the American Pie Council, and World's Championship Chili Cookoff. Trybe Targeting also helped develop the 2011 Inaugural Sam’s Club National BBQ Tour, the richest competition series in barbecue history, and the $300,000 World Food Championships, the ultimate culinary competition.

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