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**TICKET GIVEAWAY** To See Alton Brown with the Food Adventures Crew

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See Food Network Star Alton Brown for FREE !

CALLING ALL FOODIES!

Want more than you can handle?  Then this Monday night is right up your alley.  Check out this contest, brought to you by Dayton Most Metro, Dayton Dining and Food Adventures.

 

WHAT: 2 random people who comment below will win a ticket to see ALTON BROWN LIVE at his “Edible Inevitable” show

 

WHO: ALTON BROWN the star of  Food Network’s “GOOD EATS” and commentator on the “IRON CHEF”

He brings madcap antics to any show he appears on for the Food Network, from his new “Cutthroat Kitchen” to the annual live Thanksgiving specials. Yet, there is plenty of substance in what he does. He won two James Beard Foundation Awards, the “Oscars” of the food world. One was as outstanding television host for “Good Eats” and the other for his “I’m Just Here for the Food” cookbook in the reference category.

Awards and celebrity were not enough for the entertainer in Brown. So he dreamed up “The Edible Inevitable Tour” and hit the road for his first theater experience, something he finds so different from a closed kitchen set. “The camera sucks your soul out through your eyeballs,” he explained. “I am energized by a live audience. It’s such a different experience.”

Brown wanted to do a culinary variety show in the style of “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Smothers Brothers” and “Sonny and Cher,” url-6all of which he enjoyed growing up in the 1970s.  Bringing back the kind of clever songs and comedy skits of those shows was his goal. As was being part of it. “I like to sing and play the guitar,” Brown said. All the music in the show is original, including songs “The Meat Goes On,” “Airport Shrimp Blues” and “TV Cookin Ain’t Like No Other Cookin.”

 

WHEN: Monday Night, February 10th at the SCHUSTER CENTER, 8pm

 

THAT AIN’T ALL:  You also get to have dinner at the FLYING PIZZA Downtown before the show with The Food Adventure Crew.  Meet them there for a personal FOOD ADVENURE at 6pm, it’s their treat !!  They will also accompany you to the show..

 

HOW: Just comment below to be entered into the contest and tell us why you should be chosen !

******WINNERS WILL BE PICKED ON SATURDAY !******

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Local Cakeshop To Appear on Cupcake Wars

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970422_495379397194474_777159743_n-13eff68_f6c3291c5aad8a884805431a828c4c05.png_srz_176_190_75_22_0.50_1.20_0This Sunday Night at  8pm the Food Network’s Cupckae Wars will air an episode featuring Germantown baker Amy Barkalow and her mother,  competing for the chance to have their cupcakes center court at a huge fan event for the Harlem Globetrotters.  In season eight of the popular show, AmyCake & Cookies is up against New Jersey’s Simply Sweet Cupcakes and Simply Cake form California.

While Amy  can’t tell us what happens on the show, we do know that she’s got a big move coming up in her future.  Amy will be transitioning from being a home baker to a bricks and mortar shop in downtown Miamisburg by the end of June. AmyCakes will open their doors at 80 S. Main, next to A Taste of Wine, and is currently in the process of hiring up to 4 additional employees for the new business.  Amy credits her love of baking to her mom and growing up in a home where the mixer was used more often than the microwave.  She’s even gotten her boyfriend into the business and she claims fondant is his specialty.   AmyCakes specialize in wedding cakes, cupcakes, cakepops, cookies and even do cheesecakes, cookie cakes, buckeye candies and more.  To check our her gallery and get general pricing info, check their website.
972250_497191993679881_740295680_nIf this  sounds familiar Amy and her mom Cheryl are the third local mother/daughter bake team to appear on Cupcake Wars.  Brittany Moore, owner of Moore Desserts Please and her mom have made  their first appearance on the  Food Network cooking show and used that publicity to launch her Oakwood shop.  Alyssa Logan and her mother Julie competed in season five’s Tony Hawk episode and again in season seven’s Cody Simpson episode, then followed it up by opening  up ’83 Sweets in Lucasville.

 

 

’83 Sweets Cupcake Wars Episode Reruns Thurs, Nov 1st

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’83 Sweets girls, Alyssa and Julie with Cody Simpson at the winner’s party!

We’ve said it before, but just like a good episode of Cupcake Wars, the story is worth repeating!  Daytonian Alyssa Logan and her mother Julie recently competed on an episode of the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars and if you missed it the first time, it will be re-aired on Thurs, Nov 1st at 7pm. Since it’s already aired, we figure we’re not spoiling anything by sharing that ’83 Sweets was the winner of this episode featuring Cody Simpson.  Their cupcake display was featured at special fan event for rocker Simpson.

According to the Food Netork’s website, “each week on Cupcake Wars, four of the country’s top cupcake bakers face off in three elimination challenges until only one decorator remains. The sweet prize: $10,000 and the opportunity to showcase their cupcakes at the winning gig. Candace Nelson (owner of Sprinkles Cupcakes) and Florian Bellanger (chef and co-owner of online macaroon company MadMac) serve as permanent judges with a third rotating judge each week.”

This is the second trip to Cupcake Wars for Alyssa and her mom, who serves as her assistant. Their first trip was for the Tony Hawk Foundation Skate Parks which aired on July 8th of this year, in which the baking team made it to the finals.  Her carob cupcakes with avovado, sunflower butter frosting and candy-coated sunflower seeds made a big impression on this show.  You can check out some behind the scenes video here:  [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AQ0FtcPmM4&feature=youtu.be’]

Logan said she was picked to be on the show among thousands of applicants, and believes her 1980s-themed bakery is what set them apart.  She thinks her small town

vibe really made a difference in her being cast, even though she initially thought it might put her at a disadvantage.  Logan says she’s a fourth generation baker, who learned to bake at her Grandmother’s side.  “The aromas of baking cakes, cookies and pies remind me of her, and it makes me smile.  Our special time lives on through her recipes.”  Logan is especially proud to use fresh eggs from her mothers farm as well as many organic ingredients in her baked goods as possible.

’83 Sweets is a  home based bakery-delivery business that was opened almost 3 years ago.   You place an order and she delivers.  You can also order up cupcakes and other sweets on her etsy shop.  However with all the attention “83 Sweets is getting, we wouldn’t be surprised to hear an opening soon announcement….

 

Another local bakery, Moore Dessert Please, was also featured in this episode, which originally aired on Oct 21st, read about them here.