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Chef Ryan Scott is Garlic Showdown Champ
Top Chef Star and Bay Area Culinary Favorite Ryan Scott edged out stiff competition in winning the 3rd annual Garlic Showdown Sunday at the 31st Presentation of the Gilroy Garlic Festival. His four-course combination of pasta, beef, tomato succotash and watermelon tomato salad was the winning combination featuring the “secret ingredient” of tomato in this “Iron Chef” style competition.
The winning entry featured: Homemade Hand-torn Pasta with Baby Tomatoes, Tomato Broth & Mozzarella with Sun-dried Tomato, Black Garlic-encrusted Beef Tenderloin, along with Sungold Tomato Succotash, and Watermelon Tomato Salad with Smoked Tomato Vinaigrette.
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President's Message
On behalf of the community of Gilroy and the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association, I invite you to join us at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Our mission is to provide you with an incredible festival, while also providing support for the numerous non-profit organizations that benefit from the Gilroy Garlic Festival. We certainly hope you will enjoy all the incredible garlic treats you could find, dance to your heart´s content and truly experience our beloved festival. Please visit us July 24, 25 & 26, 2009 to celebrate all that is garlic.
I look forward to sharing the fun and entertainment of Garlic Festival XXXI with you!
-Kirsten Carr, 2009 President
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Gilroy Garlic Festival Surpasses $8.5 Million Distribution Mark. The Gilroy Garlic Festival Association will distribute $240,000 to 164 participating ...
Festival organizers have announced 2009 attendance topped 108,000 for the 31st presentation of the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival. The ...
Spicy Garlic Butter Cookie Wins Cook-Off
A tempting mixture of sweet and savory claimed the coveted garlic crown at the 2009 Great Gilroy Garlic Cook-Off. Andrew ...
Showdown
Top Chef’s Jamie Among Showdown Contestants Top Chef’s Jamie Lauren joins three other top Bay Area chefs in the annual Garlic Festival Showdown, scheduled for high noon Sunday, July 26. Jamie, executive chef of Absinthe Brasserie & Bar in San Francisco will take on: Brian Christensen of Stokes Adobe in Monterey, Bruce Paton “The Beer Chef” from Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco, and Ryan Scott of ryanscott2go.com in San Francisco.
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“Any Bozzo Can Cook” Returns With Second Printing “Any Bozzo Can Cook,” the critically acclaimed cookbook published to commemorate the 30th Gilroy Garlic Festival, will be released in its second printing July 24-26 at the 2009 festival.
Co-authored by Festival cooking legends Gene Sakahara and Sam Bozzo, the first edition featured 103 garlic-enhanced recipes and was regarded as “the ultimate user’s guide for fresh [...]
Cook-Off
Spicy Garlic Butter Cookie Wins Cook-OffA tempting mixture of sweet and savory claimed the coveted garlic crown at the 2009 Great Gilroy Garlic Cook-Off. Andrew Barth of Winnetka, California came out on top despite preparing the dish for only the fifth time.
“I was worried. The competition was so stiff,” said Barth who dazzled the judges with Spicy Garlic Butter Cookies with Garlic Goat Cheese and Honey.
