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The Road To Napa: San Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition #sponsored

February 7, 2013 by Dawn McAlexander

This year is the 11th annual San Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition. This video shares a little about what it takes to get into one of these cooking competitions.

Students from all over the United States and Canada come together to compete in this competition in 10 regional challenges. The winners of each of these regional challenges then face-off in Napa Valley in several different competition, hoping to ultimately become win one of many competitions including the Mystery Basket Competition, the Signature Dish Competition, the People’s Choice Award and Acqua Panna® Fan Favorite.

Learn more about this competition and those are involved in the Almost Famous Chef’s Competition.

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Filed Under: Entertainment Tagged With: Almost Famous Chef Competition, cooking, San Pellegrino, The Road To Napa

About Dawn McAlexander

Dawn is a full time writer and content creator. Besides Cheap Is The New Classy, she also owns and writes for EatPlayRock.com, an entertainment site. Her interests include traveling, attending music events, DIY projects and reading. Dawn has a B.S. in Psychology and currently resides in North Carolina with her husband, Kenny, their dog, Marley, and their cat, TJ.

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  1. Krystle says

    February 8, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    Looks like it would be a blast to watch! What a great opportunity for kids!

  2. Ericka @ NibblesNFeasts says

    February 8, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    Oh wow! This is right up my alley. Thanks for sharing!

  3. Dawn Lopez says

    February 8, 2013 at 11:57 pm

    How cool is that! That would be neato to see in action!

  4. Sarah @ East9thStreet says

    February 9, 2013 at 12:54 am

    How exciting for them to compete at this level! I love all cooking shows and can’t wait to see the video journey.

  5. Denise G says

    February 9, 2013 at 1:31 am

    This will be fun to watch! I love to see the different categories!!

  6. Pam says

    February 10, 2013 at 12:10 pm

    My son wants to be a chef so I am going to share this with him. 🙂

  7. Jeannette says

    February 10, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    Looks like it would be a blast to watch and even more fun to taste test:-)

    • Dawn McAlexander says

      February 10, 2013 at 1:39 pm

      For real!

      Dawn

  8. Liz @ A Nut in a Nutshell says

    February 10, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    How cool would it be to watch that in person? Amazing!

  9. Melissa Lawler says

    February 10, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    How exciting! One day I would love to attend one of these food competitions.

  10. Meghan says

    February 10, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    I think I like these shows so much since I am so NOT good at cooking 🙂

    • Dawn McAlexander says

      February 10, 2013 at 8:49 pm

      Same here! Ha!

      Dawn

  11. Julia Potvin says

    February 10, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    I love watching food competitions, and food cooking programs. This is great good luck to those students!

  12. Jennifer Williams says

    February 10, 2013 at 11:30 pm

    I love watching Chef competitions, it is amazing the ingredients they get and they can come up with a great dish from them.

  13. Amanda @ Survival Guide by The Working Mom says

    February 12, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    Neat, I love all those chef competition shows like Top Chef and Iron Chef!

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Dawn is a full time writer and content creator. Besides Cheap Is The New Classy, she also owns and writes for EatPlayRock.com, an entertainment site. Her interests include traveling, attending music events, DIY projects and reading. Dawn has a B.S. in Psychology and currently resides in North Carolina with her husband, Kenny, their dog, Marley, and their cat, TJ.

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