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Sunday, 08 March 2009 10:52 |
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Teamed with Chef John Ondo of Restaurant Lana in Charleston, City Grocery scored an Iron-Chef win Saturday at Charleston's Food and Wine Festival. "Backbreaker!" says Currence, "We had thirty minutes to assemble 4 dishes. Our secret ingredient was goat cheese and I completely locked up when the timer started. Fortunatelty, I had had a good "chalk talk" with sous chef John Stokes right before hitting the stage which he planted a seed for one of the dishes and that, along with a stellar performance by John Ondo carried us through." The win is City Grocery's second competition win in the last year, the last coming in New Orleans at the Great American Seafood Cookoff. "Competition cooking is not my thing at all," says Currence who nosed out Marc Collins of Circa 1886 and Jean-Robert de Cavel of Jean-Robert at Pigall's, "but winning a couple of these things has been fun. I guess I'm a little competitive."
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