That's a wrap, y'all -
at least for the Greensboro series of Got To Be NC Competition Dining! Check out the
official press release below to see what you missed - and don't worry, there
are battles coming up in Raleigh, Charlotte and Wilmington that you can get
tickets to now before the big Battle of Champions in October!
Local Chef Team Earns the Got to Be NC
Competition Dining Series’ Greensboro Title
Team Sedgefield Culinary Crushers from
Sedgefield Country Club Takes Home Win, Moves on to
Statewide Championship
The
Got to Be NC Competition Dining Series, a single-elimination tournament
highlighting the best of the state’s food, agriculture and culinary talent, has
named a winning team for its local Greensboro series. Team Sedgefield Culinary
Crushers made up of three chefs from Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro,
brought home the title. Team Sedgefield Culinary Crushers defeated Team Wiley
Pickle Weasels from Greensboro in the final dinner event.
The finale challenged
the chef teams to use two featured ingredients, Lady Edison hog and produce harvested
from several area farms, including The Edible Schoolyard at the Greensboro
Children's Museum. Team Sedgefield Culinary Crushers chefs James Patterson,
Issac Spencer and Tim Alston served up the highest scoring dish of the night
and won over the crowd’s stomachs with the fifth course. The mouth-watering
dessert was a destructed buttermilk pie, which included Ran-Lew Dairy
buttermilk mascarpone cream, Bertie County peanut and pork crackling
shortbread, passion fruit gastrique, Edible Schoolyard white plums, North
Carolina peaches, strawberries and mint. (See complete scores and dishes here.)
“What an experience!
We’ve never done anything like this before as a team and it’s very different
from what we do every day, so this was a blast challenging ourselves against
other culinary professionals,” said Chef Patterson. “I’m so proud of our team, the
excitement was noticeable at the club in the weeks leading up to the
competition, and my guys brought their “A Game” both nights. It feels amazing
to be named the local champions and to move on to compete in the statewide
championship this fall.”
As part of the
Greensboro series winnings, the team took home $2,000 in cash and prizes, and
each member received a handcrafted knife by Ironman Forge, an autographed
cookbook by master French baker Lionel Vatinet of La Farm Bakery and the
coveted “Red Chef Jacket” provided by ALSCO. Additionally, Team Sedgefield
Culinary Crushers will move on to the Battle of Champions statewide finale in
October where they will compete against other winners from across North
Carolina.
“The Greensboro finale
dinner battle was highly competitive with each team taking the lead at
different times throughout the night, at one point with only a hundredth of a
point difference in scores, ” said Jimmy Crippen, Competition Dining Series
founder and host. “The energy in the kitchen was palpable with both teams hard
at work creating crowd-pleasing dishes. Ultimately, Team Sedgefield Culinary
Crushers stole the show with their dessert course, securing them the big win.”
Every Got to Be NC
Competition Dining Series dinner event includes two chef teams battling it out,
each preparing three courses centered on a featured North Carolina ingredient
that is revealed only an hour before they start cooking that day. Ticketed
guests get in on the action, savoring a full-service, six-course meal without
knowing which chef prepared which plate. Unlike any other cooking competition,
attendees vote on each dish using their smart phone, and ultimately help
determine who moves on to the next round and who goes home.
The Got to Be NC Competition
Dining Series now moves on to Raleigh with battles July 11, 12, 14, 18,
19, 21 and a local finale July 24. Additional information and tickets are
available at www.competitiondining.com.
About The Got to Be NC
Competition Dining Series
The Got to Be NC
Competition Dining Series is sponsored by the NC Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services, Pate Dawson-Southern Foods, Certified Angus
Beef®, Freshness from North Carolina Waters, Joyce Farms, Goodnight
Brothers, Pepsi Bottling Ventures, ALSCO, Swisher Hygiene and local and
regional partners throughout the state. The goal of the series is to celebrate
North Carolina products and agriculture, and to showcase the culinary ingenuity
and talent across the state. For more information, visit www.competitiondining.com or get in on
the conversation at www.facebook.com/competitiondining and
@CompDiningNC on Twitter or Instagram.