{"id":4496,"date":"2011-08-31T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2011-08-31T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:59:18","slug":"famous-tv-chefs-to-appear-at-mushroom-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"Famous TV chefs to appear at Mushroom Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4498\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Garces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4498\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4498\" style=\"border: 2px solid navy; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Garces\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Garces-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iron Chef Jose Garces is just one three prominent TV chefs expected to appear during the 2011 Mushroon Festival in Kennett Square.\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iron Chef Jose Garces is just one three prominent TV chefs expected to appear during the 2011 Mushroon Festival in Kennett Square.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 It&#8217;s the triple crown of the cooking competition reality TV shows as Iron Chef Jose Garces, Top Chef DC winner Kevin Spraga and Season 2 MasterChef winner Jennifer Behm step behind the Mushroom Festival&#8217;s demonstration kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Proclaiming her love of cooking with fungi and living next to Kennett Square, the Mushroom Capital of the World in the finale of Fox Network&#8217;s <em>MasterChef,<\/em> Jennifer Behm, of Wilmington, Delaware defeated her \u201carch-rival\u201d with a mushroom ravioli as her assigned ingredient in the semi-final round. Behm will do a cooking demonstration at 2:45 pm on Saturday, September 10 in the Special Events Tent (corner of Willow and E. State roads). She will also judge the Amateur Mushroom Soup Cook-off at 5 pm on Saturday and ride in the Mushroom Festival&#8217;s Community Parade on Friday, September 9 at 6 pm.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jose Garces, Food TV Iron Chef and Philadelphia restaurateur, will appear on Saturday, September 10, 1:30 pm in the Special Events tent. There will also be a book signing after his demonstration at the Culinary Tent (corner of Broad and E. Cypress Streets). Garces is also one of the judges of the Amateur Mushroom Soup Cook-off.<\/p>\n<p>Top Chef DC winner Kevin Spraga appears at the Mushroom Festival on Sunday, September 11 at 1:30 pm in the Culinary Tent (corner of Broad and E. Cypress Street). Learn his take on cooking with mushrooms and more about his soon-to-be opened Philadelphia restaurant \u2013 Sbraga.<\/p>\n<p>Details, schedules, a brochure and map are available on the Mushroom Festival website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroomfestival.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.mushroomfestival.org<\/a>. For more information call 610-925-3373.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 It&#8217;s the triple crown of the cooking competition reality TV shows as Iron Chef Jose Garces, Top Chef DC winner Kevin Spraga and Season 2 MasterChef winner Jennifer Behm step behind the Mushroom Festival&#8217;s demonstration kitchen. Proclaiming her love of cooking with fungi and living next to Kennett Square, the Mushroom Capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[530,90,192],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-iron-chef","tag-kennett-square","tag-mushroom-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}