la.foodblogging Giveaway - Two Pairs of Tickets to the Los Angeles Wine and Food Festival
Sunday, August 6, 2006 18:52
The inaugural LA Wine & Food Festival is happening from August 26th-August 27th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. To help promote the event, we are giving away two pairs of tickets for the event.
In addition to demonstrations and presentations, there will be gourmet food tastings. Appetizers, candy and chocolates, cheeses, coffee, tea, and cocoa, nuts, jams and preserves, meats and pates, oils and vinegars, seafood and caviar, sauces and spreads and much more, will be available. See a list of exhibitors at the Festival website.
Over 100 wineries will also be exhibiting and pouring tastes of their wines.
In honor of Cat Cora, who will be at the festival on Saturday the 26th, we are having a “give yourself an Iron Chef name” contest. Yes, I know that the Iron Chefs don’t use creative names, but don’t you think they should? Instead of Iron Chef Morimoto, maybe he should be Sushi Sensei or The Kobe Beef Batallion Chief.
Here is what you need to do in order to win a pair of tickets to the event ($120 value):
- Leave a comment for this post with your Iron Chef Name, be creative! What would you like to be called in Kitchen Stadium?
- Make sure that you leave a valid email address with your comment so that we can contact you if you win. Your email will only be used to contact you if you win.
- Enter as often as you like, but please leave an individual comment for each of your entries (do not leave multiple names in one comment)
- Leave your comment no later than 5:00pm, Sunday, August 13th.
- One pair of tickets will be given to the person who comes up with the most creative name (as decided by me)
- One pair of tickets will be given to a person drawn at random (this is why each entry needs to be an individual comment)
- Winners will be announced on August 14th and contacted via email
Of course, if you do not want to participate in the contest, but do want to attend the Festival, you can purchase tickets online, they are $65/person or $120/couple.
Good luck!
LA Food and Wine Festival Website
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By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.
Jason says:
August 7th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Since I’m from The South:
The Hush Puppy Handler
Matt says:
August 7th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Meatloaf!
Kristy says:
August 7th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Hey Jonah… here is my first Iron Chieftress name:
The Battling Bon Vivant
Kristy says:
August 7th, 2006 at 10:52 am
#2: Our Lady of Licentiousness in the Kitchen
Kristy says:
August 7th, 2006 at 11:01 am
#3: The Skilled Angeleno
=)
Kat says:
August 7th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Lightening Ginzu
bob kessler says:
August 7th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
TIN PAN
Kitty says:
August 7th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Sugar Cane Assasin!
Yu Shan says:
August 7th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Ginsu Genius
Berni says:
August 7th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Wok With Heels
(my first post!)
ann says:
August 7th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
chef wonton sushi
sneakypeteiii says:
August 7th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
The Sultan of Sorbets
Jumpcut says:
August 8th, 2006 at 5:55 am
Say konichiwa to me, “Iron Chef Burnt Toast!”
(I may not be much of a cook myself, but I appreciate those who can!)
doodles says:
August 8th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Iron Chef Doodles
Sylvie says:
August 8th, 2006 at 7:11 am
Cast Iron Sylvie
Sylvie says:
August 8th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Chef Iron Clad Sylvie
Lucy says:
August 8th, 2006 at 8:31 am
Iron Chef Flaming Tongs
Ed says:
August 8th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Iron Chef Supersonic Sushi
Lucy says:
August 8th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Iron Chef Chopstick Samurai
duckduckgoose says:
August 8th, 2006 at 10:10 am
I’m always encouraging people to make up a golf name for themselves. To do this you take the name of an animal as your first name and the name of a golf club as your last name. This method was adopted by one Eldrick Woods, who came up with the moniker, Tiger Woods. On the course I’m known as Mouse Putter (I admit not quite as intimidating as Tiger). For my Iron Chef name I think the same formula makes sense. Cat Cora was on the right track, but didn’t use a cooking implement for her last name. I’d name her Cat “apple” Corer. My iron chef name will be:
Lion Cast-Iron Skillet
I think it’s both intimidating and doesn’t cause cancer like teflon.
Great prize, thanks for offering.
Sydney says:
August 8th, 2006 at 10:28 am
“Cat Cora was on the right track”? Umm, if you watched the show you would know Cat Cora is her real name.
Scott says:
August 8th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
I like to use different types of wines in my cooking. Instead of just using standard cooking wine or a generic red wine, this gives the food much more flavor and can create very unique dishes! Thus, I would be called…
The Wizard of Wine
Scott says:
August 8th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Another name I like is the
Grape Gastronomist
Peter says:
August 8th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
The Sultan of Saute
Peter says:
August 8th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Prince of Peppercorns
Peter says:
August 8th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Lord of the Onion Rings
Peter says:
August 8th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Captain Condiment
Laura J says:
August 8th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Sensei Soft Butter
DrewB says:
August 8th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Iron Chef Drew Brew
Sunny says:
August 8th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
oh i have to vote for lord of the onion rings lol but i’d go with The Great Sear; love love love this contest :)
Joyce says:
August 9th, 2006 at 6:54 am
Iron Chef Yogayuga from Hong Kong!
It will be great to visit the LA Wine and Food Festival during my stay in LA!
sneakypeteiii says:
August 9th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Flavor Welder
sneakypeteiii says:
August 9th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Iron Chef Richard Nixon
(East meets West…)
Triplecreme says:
August 9th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Iron Chef Gastropornographer.
I love photographing food, and my frined calls my photos “gastro porn.”
Josie Le Balch says:
August 10th, 2006 at 6:31 am
Because of my use of exotic game, my Iron Chef name is Captain Kangaroo.
Jumpcut says:
August 10th, 2006 at 8:12 am
I think you should give a pair of tix to the Hong Kong girl who commented above…she’s giving LA Foodblogging some good international publicity on her site!
Peter says:
August 10th, 2006 at 9:48 am
This one came to me in a dream…
The Facilitator of Flavor
Sydney says:
August 10th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Iron Chef “F Bobby Flay”
Sir Eatsalot says:
August 10th, 2006 at 10:03 am
My votes are for Lion Cast Iron Skillet (made me laugh), Iron Chef Gastropornographer (triplecreme has a great blog of her own and I’m sure she’ll do a great write-up of the show), or Captain Kangaroo (hysterical take on Josie’s love of exotic game).
Lindsay says:
August 10th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Cheese Is Christ!
munkicat says:
August 10th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Champion of Breakfast
anne says:
August 10th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
iron chef gour met supperman
anne says:
August 10th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Iron Chef A la Minut
christine says:
August 10th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
THE MIGHTY WHISK! i even came up with a slogan, Prepare to be Whipped!
katie says:
August 10th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
bread brigadeer!
katie says:
August 10th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
colossus of cookie!
william says:
August 10th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
Menu Maestro
themirthmobile says:
August 11th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Iron chef Ninja Knife Skillz
Why We Type says:
August 11th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Chef Man-yardee
MaxMillion says:
August 12th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Iron Chef Firecrotch
Marcy brown says:
August 12th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
I would be “She Who Must Bake”
If I’m happy I bake to share joy, if I’m sad or angry, I bake to feel better. And it always works!
Marcy brown says:
August 12th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
“Biscuit Babe”
Because a tender, fluffy baking powder biscuit is a thing of beauty - and I proudly teach all my friends to make them!
Marcy says:
August 12th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
And lastly - “Flour Power”
Because give me a five pound bag of ground wheat and miracles happen!
MaxMillion says:
August 12th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Iron Chef Melibu
Chris Y says:
August 12th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
Iron Chef Iron Chef
MaxMillion says:
August 13th, 2006 at 10:27 am
and, of course, Iron Chef Sugartits
Jonah says:
August 13th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
And…. the entries are now closed!
Jane says:
August 15th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Chef Tossoff
Kathy says:
August 16th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Sea Salt Seductress