Join Us at the 9th Annual StarChefs International Chefs Congress

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Oct. 13, 2014 - PRLog -- Leaders of the restaurant world are uniting for a three-day powwow in Brooklyn to tackle trends, techniques, and the future of food. Among the global gurus of cuisine joining the huddle are Joan Roca, Enrique Olvera, and Grant Achatz. The streets of the world’s favorite borough will be clogged with clogs, as chefs from coast to coast converge. The autumn air will be ripe with passion and possibility as Greenpoint becomes the best fed neighborhood on earth. “We’re excited to welcome everyone to the Brooklyn Expo and Greenpoint, a neighborhood emerging as an incubator for inventive young chefs and artisans,” says Will Blunt, Managing Editor of StarChefs.com.

When: October 26 to 28, 2014

Where: The Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint

What: 9^th StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress, Cooking Honest: The Power of Authenticity in the Kitchen

Who: 100+ trailblazing chefs from across the globe, presenting to 2,000 savvy industry pros from across the country

Program:
Main Stage Cooking Demos with Dan Barber, George Mendes, Will Goldfarb, Yoshihiro Narisawa, Masaharu Morimoto, Jamie Bissonnette, Gunnar Karl Gíslason, Ana Sortun, Michael White, Joan Roca, Enrique Olvera, Grant Achatz, Homaro Cantu
Hands-on Workshops and Panels – More than 40 savory, pastry, beverage, & business topics
Competitions – The 4th Annual Vitamix Challenge, judged by Alex Guarnaschelli and Norman Van Aken; and the 5th Annual Somm Slam, emceed by Master Sommelier Fred Dexheimer
EAT@ICC – The annual food fest of more than 20 food carts, representing StarChefs’ favorite chefs and restaurants from its travels around the nation.
Congress Cocktail – The top New Orleans, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York bartenders
ICC After Party – Radegast Hall & Biergarten, where industry attendees cut loose
Products Fair – A curated showcase of 30 of the most highly regarded purveyors in the industry

“We’ve reinvented our trade show, shedding traditional booths and replacing them with more interactive product experiences,” says Antoinette Bruno, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of StarChefs.com.

Visit www.starchefs.com/icc (http://www.starchefs.com/cook/events/icc/2014) for more details, the full ICC schedule, and industry-only passes. Press passes are available upon completion and approval of the Media Credentials Form (https://docs.google.com/a/starchefsinc.com/forms/d/1zVWb3...).

About StarChefs™: StarChefs.com has served the restaurant industry since 1995. StarChefs.com’s original culinary content is driven by in-person tastings and interviews across the world. Its mission is to catalyze culinary professionals’ success and give them the tools they need to overcome their specific challenges. In addition to featuring top chefs, pastry chefs, sommeliers, and mixologists, StarChefs.com’s Culinary JobFinder is the leading job board connecting culinary and hospitality professionals to careers in the foodservice industry. StarChefs.com features more than 30,000 published pages of original, chef-focused culinary content and generates traffic of over 30 million hits a month and has been nominated for Best Web Site for Food and Nutrition by the James Beard Foundation.