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Fiery Foods Festival
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Fiery Foods Festival Schedule:
- 8 a.m. North Market opens, fiery foods vendors on premises
- 9 – 11 a.m., musical entertainment by the Andrew Hartman Trio
- 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., face painting by Rita
- 10 a.m., Amateur salsa-making contest in the Dispatch Kitchen REGISTRATION REQUIRED email info@northmarket.com for more details
- 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Mark Wood Fun Show, cowboy tricks and balloon shapes
- 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., musical entertainment by The Piano Peddler
- 11 a.m. Free maracas, sombreros, balloons and chili-pepper shaped cookies for the kids (while supplies last)
- 11 a.m. Professional Chili Cook-off featuring chilis by local chefs
- 12 p.m. Amateur Chili Cook-off featuring chilis by customers REGISTRATION FULL
- 1 p.m., Amateur Hot Sauce contest in the Dispatch Kitchen REGISTRATION REQUIRED email info@northmarket.com for more details
- 1 – 3 p.m., musical entertainment by the Island Breeze Duo
- 2 p.m., Hot pepper eating contest in the Dispatch Kitchen
- 3 p.m., Hot wing eating contest in the Dispatch Kitchen
- 3 – 5 p.m., musical entertainment by the Gadabouts
- Hot and spicy foods featured throughout the North Market all day
Spring seems so distant, but the North Market is here to help you melt away the winter blues and blahs with our 7th annual Fiery Foods Festival on Saturday, February 20th. Boasting everything from tropical entertainment to tongue-tingling foods the Fiery Foods Festival will put you in a sunny frame of mind!
Want to get directly in on the fiery foods action? Customers can take a shot at fame and fortune (OK, infamy and North Market gift certificates) in a number of contests. There’s the tried and true Amateur Salsa Contest. If you’ve got a good mix of chunky or pureed fruit or vegetable salsa, put it to the test against other homemade salsa makers. Or maybe you like to play with fire? For you we have the Amateur Hot Sauce Contest. He/she with the supreme salsa or hot sauce concocting skills will take home $100 in North Market and CaJohn’s Flavor & Fire gift certificates. Or one can prove their chili preparing proficiency in our ever-popular Customer Chili Cook-off. The competition will garner the first place winner $100 and the runner up $50 in North Market gift certificates. Finally, those with iron gullets can register on the day of the event for the Hot Pepper Eating or the Wings of Fire wing eating contest. Familiarity with the term “capsaicin” should suggest that neither of these contests is for the faint of taste bud, but victors will take home a plethora of CaJohns’ products as prizes.
In its fifth year the Chef Chili Challenge pits local chefs against one another as contenders for the title “North Market Chili Champ 2010,” a special trophy and $200 in North Market gift certificates. Participating chefs (at the time of press release) include representatives of Basi Italia, Chef Butcher’s Creole Kitchen, Latitude 41, Jerry Bullock, the returning champ from North Market Poultry & Game, Pastaria and Two Caterers. We are sure to have many more chef entrants by competition time!