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Indianapolis may be best known for hosting the world\u2019s largest outdoor sporting event, the Indianapolis 500, but the city will also host the grand finale of the world’s largest culinary competition. The World Food Championship Final Table will take place in Indianapolis August 8 and 9 with three rounds of competition and one competitor winning the $100,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n
The ten Champions who will compete at the Final Table include:<\/p>\n
Lidia Hadaddian<\/strong>, two-time Category Champion from Pasadena, California<\/p>\n Jodi Taffel<\/strong>, 2019 Bacon World Champion from Altadena, California<\/p>\n Matthew Statham<\/strong>, 2019 World Chef Champion from Fultondale, Alabama<\/p>\n Morgan Cheek<\/strong>, 2019 World Burger Champion from Muscle Shoals, Alabama<\/p>\n Ryan Hegland<\/strong>, 2019 World Steak Champion from Lakeville, Minnesota<\/p>\n Josh Cooper<\/strong>, 2019 World Seafood Champion from Tallahassee, Florida<\/p>\n Kelli Fairchild-Cochran<\/strong>, two-time Sandwich Champion from Merced, California<\/p>\n Evette Rahman<\/strong>, two-time Dessert Champion from Orlando, Florida<\/p>\n Rocky Julianelle<\/strong>, 2019 World Open Chili Champion from East Haven, Connecticut<\/p>\n Ryan Murphy<\/strong>, 2019 World Barbecue Champion from Kansas City, Missouri<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click Here<\/a> to learn more about the champions and the competition.<\/p>\n Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indianapolis may be best known for hosting the world\u2019s largest outdoor sporting event, the Indianapolis 500, but the city will also host the grand finale of the world’s largest culinary competition. The World Food Championship Final Table will take place in Indianapolis August 8 and 9 with three rounds of competition and one competitor winning the $100,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[22,26,34,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamindiana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}