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Quite literally, the three chefs involved in this Bad to the Bone Throwdown are about three of the biggest stars the entire state of Texas has … so the chance to taste their food in a competition means one happy belly.
Each chef will choose a preferred ingredient, then will create a dish that includes all three of the chef-picked ingredients which could range anywhere from peanuts to oysters.
Audience participants and a panel of noted culinary experts will sample the dishes and use live text voting to determine the winning chef. A live video feed will project all of the kitchen stage action onto Stubb’s stage canopy so the audience can see close-ups of the food preparation as well as the live feed for the text voting results. The DJ, el john Selector, will be spinning bad-to-the-bone soul, funk and world beats to keep the tempo pumping until final votes have been cast.
Once the winner is announced, the evening melds into a rockin’ live concert with Charanga Cakewalk, a seven-piece Latin band featuring master multi-instrumentalist Michael Ramos and known for pan-Latin tunes that dive into deep, urban grooves.
On tap:
- David Bull, named as one of Food & Wine magazine’s Top Ten Best New Chefs in 2003; now Bolla at the Stoneleigh Hotel in Dallas’ executive chef. Author of Bull’s Eye on Food Interactive Cookbook and former executive chef at The Driskill Grill in Austin.
- Shawn Cirkiel, executive chef of Austin’s Parkside Restaurant, recently named by Bon Appetit magazine as one of the “Hot 10 New American Taverns”
- Paul Petersen, star of TLC’s BBQ Pitmasters and author of Keeper of the Flame Interactive Cookbook. Petersen was also former executive chef of Café Cenzio at the Gage Hotel.
Originally scheduled for Jan 15 but rained out, Bad to the Bone is this Saturday, Feb 27th, still at Stubb’s. Tickets are $35 and available at www.stubbsaustin.com. Ticket sales will benefit the Sustainable Food Center which helps more than 20,000 Central Texans access healthy, affordable and locally grown food annually.
$35 a ticket is a veritable steal for the food of these fellas.
