Taste of Birmingham football cook off
Coventry City star Dave Busst is back in training, this time in the kitchen ahead of a football cook off at the Taste of Birmingham food festival.
Dave will be working with Coventry-based chef Jonathan Parnell
during the festival. His cooking rival is former Aston Villa player
Charlie Aitken and they will each tackle a culinary creation to impress
visitors.
Each team will be given a bag of locally sourced food
and then cook against the clock to create the best dish. The crowd then
chooses the winning team and shows the red card to the losers!
This
is part of a series of football cook offs at Taste of Birmingham which
will see a host of football legends swap the pitch for the kitchen.
Battling out to become top of the Taste league, footballing greats from
the region’s main clubs will be pitted against each other including
Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich.
Dave Busst, former Coventry City defender, says:
“I’m
looking forward to honing my cooking skills with Jonathan at Taste of
Birmingham. Like Coventry City, we’ve got a strong team and I’m hoping
the crowd will be on our side on the day. Watch out Villa!”
Jonathan Parnell, executive chef at Filini restaurant at Radisson hotel Birmingham, says:
“As
a life long Coventry fan, I’m over the moon to be working with Dave–
it’s a childhood dream fulfilled! I can’t wait to cook with him at
Taste of Birmingham and swapping food tips for football tactics.
“At
the food festival we’ll be working together to create a dish showcasing
Filini restaurant’s twist on classic Italian cooking – it will be
interesting to see what ingredients we’re given on the day.”
Dave Hodgson, marketing director at Marketing Birmingham, says:
“Taste
of Birmingham is welcoming a host of footballing greats to try their
hand at cooking in a series of interactive features at the festival.
We’re really pleased that Dave and Jonathan are able to join us as part
of this – it will be interesting to see if Dave’s skills in the kitchen
are as good as on the pitch!”
Dave and Jonathan’s cook off will take place on Friday 10 July at
Taste of Birmingham.
For further information and to buy tickets to the event visit the
Taste of Birmingham website here.
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