Chris Kern, the Creator of Sunday Night Chef Fights, dropped a gem of an email on me yesterday. After reading the press release that was attached to his email, I was stoked and more than pleased to promote Sunday Night Chef Fights on RamenDays.com. This holy event so close to my apartment that I could throw a rock westward and probably hit one of the culinary artists in his/her fancy Chef Boyardi hat. I am currently trying to set up an on-camera interview with Chris Kern so we can learn more about Sunday Night Chef Fights. This isn’t the last time you’re going to hear me talk about this event so stay tuned.

Renowned Local Chefs Moulios, Schmitt to Cook for Culinary Supremacy at Live Head-to-Head Cooking Competition Sunday, August 8th at
San Diego Wine & Culinary Center in Downtown San Diego

 San Diego, CA—Two esteemed local chefs will sharpen their knives and step into the culinary ring to determine just who is San Diego’s “Top Chef,” as ForgottenGrapes.com presents the inaugural San Diego Sunday Night Chef Fight cooking competition live Sunday August 8th at 6:00 p.m. at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center in downtown San Diego.

Chef Geordie Moulios, chef/owner of Cin Cin Simply Italian in Poway, will face the heat and face off against his opponent, Chef Richard B. Schmitt, Executive Chef and Head Instructor of Barbeques Galore’s Cooking Experience cooking school in San Diego, in this high-stakes live cooking competition where the local audience gets to serve as judge, jury, and taste-cutioner.

Each Sunday Night Chef Fight is a fast-paced, no-holds-barred culinary showdown similar to popular cooking competition shows on TV, but with a few extra twists thrown in to entertain. Before each event, both chefs are given three base ingredients – a protein, vegetable, and starch/grain – that must be included in their creations, a shopping allowance, and a week to plan and prep their dishes for the sixty members of the audience jury. Then, during the Sunday Night Chef Fight itself, each chef and his or her sous-chef will have only 30 minutes to cook and finish their dishes as well as incorporate a “mystery ingredient” into the mix while host Chris Kern peppers him or her with questions and keeps the audience apprised and entertained. The audience rates each chef’s creations in three categories, the totals are tallied at the end of the night, and one chef will be crowned the winner, receive the Sunday Night Chef Fight’s trophy, the title of “Champion Chef of San Diego,” and the opportunity to defend his or her title against a new local chef challenger at the next Sunday Night Chef Fight, to be held in October or November.

“Sunday Night Chef Fights are the ultimate challenge for any outstanding chef,” notes Chris Kern, founder of ForgottenGrapes.com, creator of Sunday Night Chef Fights, and host of the event. “Not only are the chefs testing their culinary creativity and ability to work against the clock and against each other, but they’ve now got sixty local gourmets, foodies, and self-appointed food critics judging their creations.”

Each Sunday Night Chef Fight will also include as an “undercard” bout Vino Vidi Vici, a blind wine tasting competition in which all audience members taste three themed but unlabeled wines, select a favorite, and then have the opportunity to purchase either the winner or the wines they liked best. The name and varietal of each bottle will be revealed over the course of the Chef Fight.

Tickets are currently on sale at SundayNightChefFights.com for the inaugural San Diego Sunday Night Chef Fight starting at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 8th at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center in downtown San Diego, 200 Harbor Drive, Suite 120. General Seating tickets are $50 per person, which includes the competition, samples of both chef’s creations, and one pour of each Vino Vidi Vici wine. For more information on Sunday Night Chef Fights, visit SundayNightChefFights.com or e-mail info@sundaynightcheffights.com.
For media inquiries or Sunday Night Chef Fight-related interviews with Chef Moulios, Chef Schmitt, or Sunday Night Chef Fight host and creator Chris Kern, please e-mail chris@sundaynightcheffights.com or call (310) 795-9756.

About Chef Geordie Moulios

Chef Geordie Moulios has appeared on numerous television networks including The Food Network, Bravo, MTV, VH1 and Fuel as the star of a recently aired national commercial for his alma mater, The International Culinary Schools at the Art Institute. Chef Geordie graduated from The Art Institute in 2006 and subsequently opened his restaurant, Cin Cin Simply Italian in Poway, CA. His cuisine is best described as healthy, fresh, and local “Old World” Italian, and it has already made quite an impression on local San Diegans, as Chef Geordie and Cin Cin have won several “Best Of” restaurant awards from the local media. Chef Geordie is currently shooting a reality television series based on his culinary life and his work at Cin Cin and you can catch him playing drums after dinner hours on Wednesday nights at Cin Cin, when the restaurant features live local musicians and half off bottles of wine. Or, for those looking for an experience more up close and personal, he also offers private cooking classes on select Mondays every month. For more on Chef Geordie, visit GeordieMoulios.com

About Chef Richard B. Schmitt

As early as high school, Chef Richard B. Schmitt knew he had a passion for the culinary arts. He attended the Newbury College Culinary Program, then set about working in some of the country’s finest restaurants and resorts, mastering the basics in Beaver Creek, Colorado, before working for award-winning Chef Bradley Ogden in San Francisco. Chef Richard further refined his craft in many prestigious establishments: the Four Seasons Aviara, Upstream in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Hotel Hana in Maui. As Executive Chef at the Inn at Thorn Hill, Richard scored 100 on the Conde Naste Traveler Gold List and was invited to host a dinner at the James Beard House. Most recently, Richard assisted in opening one of Santa Barbara’s most innovative restaurants, Square One. Currently, Richard works for Barbeques Galore, the nation’s largest grilling and outdoor entertaining specialty retailer as their Executive Chef and Head Instructor at the San Diego Cooking Experience in the 4S Ranch community. For more on Chef Richard and the Cooking Experience, visit Learn2Grill.com

About Chris Kern

Chris Kern is a Southern California-based wine writer, wine educator, and culinary entrepreneur best known as the founder and creative driving force behind ForgottenGrapes.com, a wine-focused website dedicated to the lesser-known and uncommon grapes of wine. Utilizing a unique pop-culture-centric skew on wine mixed with irreverent humor and encyclopedic knowledge, ForgottenGrapes.com has amassed legions of fans from around the world and from wine lovers of all ilk—from the snootiest connoisseurs to folks who guzzle “Two Buck Chuck.” Chris also regularly travels across the country introducing Forgotten Grapes to curious wine drinkers through his “Getting Friendly with Forgotten Grapes” live wine tasting events. He also leads Forgotten Grapes wine tours to California’s Central Coast and France’s Rhone Valley and Provence regions. Chris and ForgottenGrapes.com were recently featured in the August 2010 issue of La Cucina Italiana magazine. His latest venture, Sunday Night Chef Fights, launches in July 2010 in the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Orange County, and aims to bring live head-to-head cooking competitions between local chefs of renown to eager local audiences who will act as judge, jury, and taste-cutioner. For more on Chris, visit ForgottenGrapes.com or SundayNightChefFights.com.

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