Written By Rebecca Baugniet Events / Places / Victoria Sep 10, 2013 The 6th Annual Chef Survival Challenge and Feast 2013 SHARE VIA: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chefs and firefighters descend on Madrona Farm. The survival challenge kicks off with a potato sack race.Contestants get a spray down after coming off the muddy slip and slide.Rowing out to Condiment Island.Natalie and David Chambers, Madrona Farmers and Chef Survival event organizers.Let the bidding begin!Chef Laura Moore (Good for You Gourmet) presents her plate of local halibut, bison sausage, Sloping Hill bacon and Madrona veggies.Brittany Peters and Amanda-Lee Chesley from Stage react to the bidding war over their record setting plate!Stage won the Golden Broccoli award for the second year in a row. This year’s dish, Madrona farm potato gnocchi in a fresh arugula sauce with a (Madrona) fried egg and kale chip set the record for the most a plate has ever gone for at $300.To read more about the Chefs Survival Challenge see Photo Essay: 2012 and 2011Chef Survival Challenge SHARE VIA: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Written By: Rebecca Baugniet Rebecca Baugniet is a freelance food writer and editor living on Canada’s West Coast with her husband and their four children. The author of three published cookbooks, Rebecca has also written for EAT Magazine and for Montréal ... Read More You may also like Awards / Drink People / Events / Wine Events / Wine News October 15, 2020 SOMM SMACKDOWN—Rumble at Aura Waterfront Restaurant Strange, interesting, and wonderful things can happen in odd times, and there is no stranger time than now, but something needed to be done to pay ... Read More Events / Food & Wine Pairing / Food Events / Places / Victoria February 25, 2020 Pacific Northwest Wine Dinner: Canoe Brewpub & Unsworth Vineyards Multi-award winning Unsworth Vineyards and Canoe’s Chef Kyle Dampsy joined forces on Wednesday, February 19, in Canoe’s upstairs Dining ... Read More Events October 30, 2019 Eat the Future Victoria’s food community came together this week at Boom + Batten restaurant for Eat the Future, a tasty event to raise money for future chefs ... Read More Causes / Chefs / Events / Victoria August 30, 2019 Mary Ploegsma—The Tattoo Series I It was an unforgettable afternoon. Mary Ploegsma served us David’s Tea’s vanilla chai with sweet local strawberries and chocolate biscuits. The ... Read More Causes / Chefs / Events / Food Heroes / Sustainability August 30, 2019 An Evening with Chef Ned Bell and Ocean Wise On August 20, 2019, Ocean Wise and Eagle Wing Whale and Wildlife Watching Tours teamed up to present the first in a series of speaker events in ... Read More Beer & Cider / Beer Dinners / Events / Food Events / Wineries & Breweries August 30, 2019 A Categorically Great Meal Saanich Brewery Category 12’s ‘Brewmaster’s Dinner’ Marries Wildcraft With Craft-Beer It was somewhere at the beginning of the ... Read More Comments are closed.
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