Pitch Taste of KC beats the weather, draws 700 hungry people
The predicted torrential rains arrived in downtown Kansas City precisely as The Pitch‘s Taste of Kansas City was wrapping up for the evening. By then, though, the 700 people leaving the Live Block of the Power & Light District had been sated by a variety of victual vendors that had offered up cheeseburgers and phad Thai and macarons and petit fours and plenty of other good things.
At the center of the US Foods-sponsored event: the annual Gold Fork contest, in which six chefs work with a selection of mystery ingredients to produce a winning meal. I was one of the judges again this year, and – spoiler alert – you’re looking at the winner. More after the jump.
