Featuring secret ingredients, young popular chefs and rockin’ live music, Bad to the Bone is a culinary event not to be missed.

Three of Texas’ youngest and most revered chefs will come together for this one-of-a-kind culinary smackdown at the legendary Stubbs Bar-B-Q in Austin on Jan. 15 from 6 to 9:30 p.m.

David Bull, executive chef of Bolla at The Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa in Dallas; Shawn Cirkiel, executive chef of Austin’s Parkside Restaurant; and Paul Petersen, star of TLC’s BBQ Pitmasters and former executive chef of Café Cenzio at the Gage Hotel, each chose a secret ingredient they hoped would stump their competitors. At the event, the star chefs will create a dish that includes all three of the chef-picked ingredients, which could range from such diverse foods as grapefruit to cauliflower to oysters. This should get interesting!

Audience participants and a panel of noted culinary experts will sample the final dishes and use live text voting to determine the winning chef. DJ el john Selector will be spinning tunes until the final votes have been cast. After the winner is announced, the event turns into a live concert featuring Charanga Cakewalk, a seven-piece Latin band known for pan-Latin tunes.

Bad to the Bone promises to be a night of impressive culinary skill, savory food and lively entertainment.

Tickets are $35 and available at www.stubbsaustin.com. For more information, call 512-480-8341. Ticket sales will benefit the Sustainable Food Center, which helps more than 20,000 Central Texans access healthy, affordable and locally grown food annually.

3 Iron Chefs Challengers…1 night only…1 fierce competition! The Chefs Under Fire™ event is being hosted by Keeper Collection, LLC and Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook.  Contestants will you have the opportunity to prepare specially selected recipes from real-life Iron Chef America Challengers Chef David Bull (of Bolla at the Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa), Chef Tyson Cole (of UCHI), and Chef Kent Rathbun (of Jaspers & Abacus), selected finalists will present their dish in person for tasting and judging purposes to these Celebrity Chefs. 

When these chefs are not competing on Iron Chef America, they are leading the trends of the Texas culinary scene with their recipe contributions to the one-of-a-kind Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook.  Each chef has personally selected one of his Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook recipes for you to prepare.

Chef David Bull – Chicken & Pancetta Cacciatore.  Use your creativity with The Chicken & Pancetta Cacciatore recipe as a base to prepare a dish in your own unique style.  Chef Bull has selected 4 required ingredients from his Cacciatore, and the rest is up to you! 

 Chef Tyson Cole – Uchiviche. Chef Cole has released this UCHI sashimi favorite for you to spice up on your own! Using 2 ingredients and 2 sauces from the traditional Uchiviche recipe, add your own flare to make it something unique that will catch the keen eye of Chef Cole.

Chef Kent Rathbun – Wood Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Peach Barbeque Sauce.  This is your chance to showcase your best barbeque sauce! Prepare pork tenderloin and present it to Chef Rathbun with your own signature barbecue sauce – can you top his Peach Barbeque Sauce?       

For Spectators:

For Additional spectator information and ticket purchase, visit www.keepercollection.com.

Love good food, wine, and celebrity chefs but the heat of competition isn’t your thing?  No problem!  Purchase tickets to view the live judging. Need a place to stay in Austin? Book a reservation at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center at the special Chefs Under Fire rate using the discount code FOODC. 

VIP Tickets – Only a few tickets left!- $60

VIP Tickets provide the highest level of benefits:
• You will be seated in the first three rows of the live event, arrival required by 7:55 pm, due to taping.
• You will have special admission to the Media/VIP Event to greet the 3 Iron Chef America challengers, which will be prior to general admission.
• You will receive a Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook Gift Certificate.   If you are already a Plate & Vine subscriber, you can use the gift certificate to add an additional year onto your subscription, or you can send it “As a Gift” for your foodie friends!
• During the pre-event, you will be served complimentary hors d’oeuvres from AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center’s Chef Josh Watkins and wine.  

General Admission Tickets – Only 250 GA Tickets Available! - $30

General Admission Tickets provide you with the following benefits:
• You will be seated at the live event, arrival required by 7:55 pm, due to taping.
• You will have admission to a pre-event to greet the 3 Iron Chef America challengers.
• You will receive a Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook Gift Certificate.   If you are already a Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook subscriber, you can use the gift certificate to add an additional year to your subscription, or you can send it as a gift for your foodie friends!
• During the pre-event, you will be served complimentary hors d’oeuvres from AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center’s Chef Josh Watkins and wine. 

6:00-6:30 PM - VIP/Media Registration, Complimentary Wine and Hors D’oeuvres, & Mingling with Celebrity Chefs
6:30-7:30 PM - General Admission Registration, Complimentary Wine and Hors D’oeuvres, & Mingling with Celebrity Chefs
7:30 - 7:55 PM - Seating for Chefs Under Fire Event
8:00 pm - Doors to Live Event close and Judging Begins

For more information, visit our Chefs Under Fire Frequently Asked Questions Keeper Collection Blog Post!

About Keeper Collection

Frustrated by recipes that provide inaccurate quantities, include difficult to follow directions, and produce disappointing and unflavorful results, Keeper Collection sought for a way to approach cooking in a user-friendly, time efficient, and money-saving way.  Traveling the world to bring you award-winning, passionate chefs and authentic recipes, Keeper Collection’s interactive cookbooks bring culture into your kitchen.  In addition to the culinary diversity provided by Keeper Collection’s interactive cookbooks, these web-based cookbooks will never deteriorate and will continue to grow and evolve as the culinary styles of the world change. Being coined as the “future of cookbooks”, Keeper Collection strives to keep our cookbooks on the cutting edge of culinary and viticulture trends.