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The 2009 North Market Fiery Foods Show in Columbus OH
By DK | February 16, 2009 | 
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Holy cow! Seems like only a few weeks ago that I was just at the 2008 North Market Show and here it is almost time for the 2009 event! This is a really great show that I highly recommend attending. I had a blast last year.
~DK~
6th ANNUAL FIERY FOODS FESTIVAL February 21, 2008 Has the chilly weather given you a touch of SAD (seasonal affective disorder)? Come to the North Market Fiery Foods Festival on Saturday, February 21 and let our fiery foods, chili contests, cooking demonstrations and lively music kick your winter blues, put some bounce back in your step and piquantly reassure you that spring is a mere month away! 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. New this year is the Hot Wing Sauce Contest. He/she with the supreme wing sauce 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 Wings of Fire wing eating contest. We’ve even got two divisions: hot and extremely, insanely hot. Familiarity with CaJohn’s commodities should suggest that neither of these divisions is for the faint of taste bud, but victors will take home a plethora of CaJohns’ products as prizes. In its fourth year the Chef Chili Challenge pits local chefs against one another as contenders for the title “North Market Chili Champ 2009,” a special trophy and $200 in North Market gift certificates. Participating chefs (at the time of press release) include representatives of Alana’s Food + Wine, Barley’s Brewing Company, Handke’s Cuisine, Pastaria and Urban Chefs. We are sure to have many more chef entrants by competition time! “Having CaJohn’s Flavor and Fire as a daily North Market merchant has really boosted the energy of the events accompanying the Fiery Foods Festival.” said David Wible, Executive Director of the North Market. “John Hard and his staff bring a level of expertise and enthusiasm to the programming of the day that really gets the crowds fired up!” Fiery Foods Festival Schedule: The North Market Fiery Foods Festival on Saturday, February 21 is a free event. Festival activities will take place from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Market hours are 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. To participate in the Hot Wing Sauce Contest, Customer Chili Cook-off or the Chef Chili Challenge, and for more information, please call (614) 463-9664 or visit www.northmarket.com. Sign up for the Hot Wing Eating Contests will take place in the Dispatch Kitchen on the day of the event. A tasting fee of $5 enables onlookers to sample all of the chilis by both professional chefs and amateur contestants while supplies last. |
Here’s more info from the North Market’s website about the upcoming show.
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Topics: Contests/Events, General, In The News | 37 Comments »
Wooooohooooooo!
Nope.
Willy and the Wolf, yeah I read that tale.
SOUNDS LIKE A BLAST :cry: IF ONLY.
The North Market is a very cool place. The festival there isn’t huge like the trade shows, but is a lot of fun no doubt. It was well worth the 10.5 hour drive last year, that’s for sure. I’ve just got too much on my plate to take a trip out of town. Wish I could make it though.
So, :nerd:, you doing the wing eating contest this year? If anythig, just enter, eat one wing and start talking, maybe you’ll win by elimination.
:fu2:
I went on
this morning, and friends are posting embarrassing pics of me. I am very glad Blane and you are not on :****::!:
:fu2: you too! You are going to the FFS, what are you sad about? Matter of fact, you can drive there every year. You want to see CaJohn, he will be at the show. :fu2:
Better go back and check again…
Maybe
can learn some cowboy tricks 
Are there any pics of you that aren’t embarassing?
I saw one once, he was wearing a mask.
I think that was Leroy when he wore his
costume for Halloween. 
Don’t worry :nerd:, I’m sure there will be plenty of “respectable” pics of you taken this weekend.:dtu:
Have fun :bro:.
Bubbah told me that she has some good’uns of :nerd:, but she can’t post ‘em on :****:.
I HAD PLANNED ON MEETING HIM.
This truly sound like an awesome time. If only I could make it. Unfortunately all of my funds from working the last 13 weekends in a row is invested in my trip to FFS.
:cry:
Xero make sure to stop by our booth and meet the whole fam damnily!
Also any TTF’ers, regulars or looky loos, mention that you recognize us from TTF and take a buck off your purchase. Anyone who wants to attend the vendor dinner on Sat. let me know and we will hook you up. They changed the format so it will cost you $5, but we can get ya in.
Busy night. Made some preserves and a second wing sauce for the competition. I thinned it down this time. Hopefully it sticks to wings.
I call this one Asian Cajun, it has both flavors of the Orient and good ol’ Louisiana. 
Sam, get me into the dinner please!
No problem.
Count on it. I will see you there. I will let you know about the dinner too. thanks
I’ll see you all there( well, I’ll see those that are going that is ).
CaJohn just told me about this on :****:. Boy this like some good eatin’!
CLICK HERE
i might make it. money is an issue but im trying to work it out.
the weather is looking bad for the weekend, so I might stay put
I am hoping for the best. To make 2 wing sauces and chili for nothing would really suck.
Tom and pops will be at FFS so everybody come by the booth and say Hi
So
how’d it go?
Went great. Got my a$$ whooped in the wing eating contest. I was just putting mu 3rd one in my mouth when I heard winner. Looked over and some guy had inhaled his 5 wings. Dante’ not sure how to spell his name, a young guy that works across the aisle from CaJohn at North Market.
My son, Danny gave the “ametuer wings” a try. He had earlier done CaJohn’s Execution Station, which included the newest “HOTT” sauce, Mongoose. Danny almost finished all six rounds but had to bow out halfway through round six. We had a blast!
I also had an amazing time, good friends, good beer, and good sauces. I obliterated HUDD and
and someone else (can’t remember his name) in Jepordy (luckaly they didn’t have a spelling catigory) and got my tongue wreaked at CaJohn’s Execution Station.
Look for a “:nerd:’s Diary” later today.
HUDD!!!!! aka dad……hey i cant find that video you were telling me about
hey Abby, It’s under :nerd:’s North Market Festival Update.
You guys talking about this?
CLICK HERE
Hello Abby!
That’s the video. I was telling her about the pics here and video there. She thought they were all at TTF. Thanks for the link DK.