Celebrity Chefs Cook For Charity
We wrote about Driven to Dine earlier this week, but there's more to the Heart of a Chef festival, which benefits the Florida Heart Research Institute.
The marquee event is a celebrity chef cookoff, where two male chefs (Jeff McInnis, of Top Chef season five and DiLido Beach Club, and Sean Bernal of The Oceanaire Seafood Room) and two female chefs (Sandee Birdsong of Top Chef season three and Kira Volz of Creek 28) will pair up against each other in a cookoff judged by, among several other chefs, yet another Top Chef alumnus: Howie Kleinberg. The two victors in the single-sex preliminary round will then battle each other to determine the overall winner.
But that's not the only thing going on — other local chefs will be hosting cooking demos. You can learn about Italian salads and how to make fresh mozzarella from Ken Lyon of Fratelli Lyon and Seth High of da Campo Osteria. Or try stepping into the molecular kitchen with Kurtis Jantz and Chad Galiano of Neomi's Grill. There will also be wine seminars and plenty of local foods to sample.
Tickets for the event are $25 per adult, $10 for children 12 and under. Admission to Jungle Island will be discounted to $12 for anyone with a Heart of a Chef ticket. The event begins at noon on Sunday.
