{"id":1177,"date":"2019-10-24T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamind2019dev.solutions4ebiz.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:09:00","slug":"team-indiana-returns-home-after-successful-world-food-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Team Indiana returns home after successful World Food Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Team Indiana returned home this week after sending three team members to their respective finals at the World Food Championship.\u00a0Two Team Indiana chefs, Turon Cummings and Jennifer Norem, earned runner-up honors\u00a0while Chef Justin Miller placed seventh. All three competitors, plus 2017 World Chef Champion Craig Baker, are automatically qualified for the 2020 World Food Championships.\u00a0Despite leaving Dallas without an individual champion,\u00a0Team Indiana has a\u00a0significant\u00a0part to play in the staging of this year\u2019s Final Table\u2014scheduled for May 8-10 in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turon Cummings, a resident of Whiting, IN, came second in the\nWorld Burger Championship with a mango, pineapple, and bacon\nburger. Fellow Northern Indiana competitor Jennifer Norem (Knox, IN)\nplaced second in the Bacon World Championship, with a Southwest-inspired\nmeatball taco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chef Jennifer Norem competed alongside her family. She took home second place honors in the Bacon World Championship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rounding out the finalists was Indianapolis Chef Justin Miller,\nwho finished seventh in the World Recipe Championship with a braised pork belly\ntaco dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For full\n2019 World Food Championships scores, visit the WFC website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight Hoosier chefs qualified for the 2019 World Food\nChampionships and represented Team Indiana, which received support\nfrom Indiana Tourism, Clustertruck, Indiana Kitchen, Indiana Grown, Red\nGold, Piazza Produce, and The Agency Worldwide. They were visited in Dallas by\nIndiana Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch, who attended the event and\njoined WFC CEO Mike McCloud to announce the selection of Indianapolis as host\nfor The Final Table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur capital city and the entire State of Indiana welcomes the World Food Championships and we are proud to have this unique opportunity to showcase the ‘Culinary Crossroads of America\u2019”<\/p>Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The ten category champions crowned over the weekend will travel to\nIndianapolis this spring and compete for $100,000 and the title of World Food\nChampion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Indiana will work closely with WFC leadership to ensure that\nthe people, products, services, and destinations which make up Indiana\u2019s\nCulinary Landscape are incorporated into both The Final Table competition and\nthe simultaneous production of the television program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Handcrafted tamales from Chef Justin Miller landed him in the Top 10 of the World Recipe Championship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Team Indiana\u2019s participation in Dallas, and the announcement of The Final Table event are part of the ongoing Culinary Crossroads initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team Indiana returned home this week after sending three team members to their respective finals at the World Food Championship.\u00a0Two Team Indiana chefs, Turon Cummings and Jennifer Norem, earned runner-up honors\u00a0while Chef Justin Miller placed seventh. All three competitors, plus 2017 World Chef Champion Craig Baker, are automatically qualified for the 2020 World Food Championships.\u00a0Despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[33,28,32,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}