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2009
Manatee Festival of the Arts
Culinary
Arts Venue
and
Competition
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Three years ago,
the Apollo Beach Manatee
Festival of the Arts included the Culinary Arts by
featuring a lively Culinary
Arts Competition. Now for 2009 the Culinary
Arts will be bigger and better! This year
we're featuring:
Cooking classes by Executive Chef Robert from Winn Dixie
Live demonstrations by chefs from Ruth Chris
Steakhouse in Tampa, Little Harbor in
Ruskin, Apollo's Bistro in Apollo Beach,
Christine's Carribbean Cuisine in
Riverview.
A live demonstration by Progress Village
Middle School Latchkey Culinary Group
Wine tastings on Saturday and Sunday by PRP Wines.
Beer Tasting by JJ Taylor Distributing of
Tampa
Demonstrations by local Chefs and by Hydro
Harvest Farms of Ruskin
And back once
again, our famous...
Culinary Arts
Competition
This
year's Competition, sponsored by
Mosaic, will feature teams of culinary
arts students from East Bay High School, Riverview High School
and Sickles High School. All 3 are
excellent culinary programs with teams
who are ready to cook before the crowd!
Riverview and Sickles will be defending their
title against East Bay High School from our
2007 Competition. The 2009 competition
will explode with 3 high schools competing for
the title.
These teams will
be traveling to Apollo Beach to prepare their
menus. At 11:00 on Saturday
each team will be given a boneless pork loin and
begin their prep. At Noon, the Competition
Begins! They'll then have one hour
to prepare a meal that's nutritious, imaginary, and
of course delicious. The results will be
evaluated by our panel of four professional judges. Cash prizes will go to
the winner of the Competition based on the
judges' results. There'll also be a
separate Peoples' Choice award given by
attendees chosen from the Festival crowds!
This is an exciting time for the students and
everyone watching them work.
Culinary events
are scheduled through the day including
samplings of delicious food from local notable
restaurants sponsored by Winn Dixie Stores
Inc., throughout both days throughout the Festival.
Come out to see our Culinary venue and of course
our exciting Competition on Saturday!

Click for a schedule of
Culinary events.
Click to see
our
Award Winning Video of the
2007 Culinary Competition
Award Winners
The 2009 Culinary Arts
Committee assembled all Culinary
activities at the festival including our
Culinary Arts Competition. The committee
members were Crystal Russell and Joanne Gadek. The Festival's
Culinary venue would not be possible
without the generous sponsorship of
Mosaic and Winn Dixie Stores, Inc..
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