World Food Championships | |
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Status | Active |
Genre | Cooking competition |
Date(s) | November |
Frequency | Annually |
Venue | The Wharf |
Location(s) | Orange Beach, Alabama |
Country | United States |
Established | 2012 |
The World Food Championships is an international cooking competition currently held in Orange Beach, Alabama. From 2012 to 2014 the even was hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada. The competition features top chefs and home cooks from around the world who have won qualifying competitions. Competitors compete in the categories of sandwiches, barbecue, chili, burgers, pasta, bacon and dessert. As of 2014 the competition has total prizes of $300,000. The competition is filmed by A&E Networks and broadcast on the network Fyi as the World Food Championships TV series. The Championships were originally held on the Las Vegas Strip but in 2013 they were moved to the Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas.
"World Food Championships draw chefs from around the globe" (Video story by USA Today, November 8, 2015)