Competitions: Smoke on the Water's Yanni Wins American Culinary Foundation Honors
Smoke on the Water BBQ team member Marc Yanni captured a silver medal at the 2009 ACF Culinary Competition in Albany NY last Sunday. Competing in the mystery basket event, 12 chefs had 4 hours to prepare a four course “hot” presentation using 12 ingredients presented to the chefs 15 minutes prior to the commencement of the contest. Yanni, who owns Yanni's Too Restaurant just south of Albany NY on the Hudson riverfront, is the Grillmaster of Smoke on the Water. This team is just one of several that compete under the bigtop of Mr. Bobo’s Traveling BBQ All Stars, featuring pitmaster and BBQ socialite Eric Johnson. Mr Bobo’s All Stars will be appearing in 13 contests and six different states in 2009.
On the weekends that the team is not competing, the restaurant will be hosting “Smoke on the Water” Sundays. Each week will feature the standard fare, plus gourmet twists including BBQ spaghetti, pork spring rolls, pork bellies, bacon adaptations and a prime rib lightly smoked and then poached in 8 pounds of butter for 6 hours.
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