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Award Winning Chefs, Food Writers, and Culinary Leaders Ready to Serve

Award Winning Chefs, Food Writers, and Culinary Leaders Ready to Serve

by | Chefs, Events, 2020 Final Table, Culinary Crossroads

Judges for this exciting Food Sport event are being announced as the competition dates of August 8th and 9th are right around the corner. Recent announcements include Terry Tucker, CEO of Maple Leaf Farms, Colt Reichart, one of owners of Red Gold Tomatoes, Alison Keefer, co-owner of Gallery Pastry Shop, Rachanee Teipen, Executive Chef Sysco, Jolene Ketzenberger, Editor of Eat Drink Indy, and Angie Martini, the reigning Indy Sugar Cream Pie Champion. Stay tuned as we round out the panel of judges with more announcements.

Click Here to see the Indy Style article and video featuring Jolene Ketzenberger and Larry Dickerson.

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