GIVEAWAY: A Guide to Fire, Flour & Fork by Culinary Personality Type

With so much to do for the food-curious, Stephanie Ganz breaks it down by foodie personality, creating curated guides for you personally, you hungry oddball.

October 28, 2015; 1:50 PM • by Stephanie Ganz

Update #1 — October 28, 2015; 1:19 PM

Fire, Flour & Fork Tasting Tent Giveaway for Saturday!

Fire, Flour & Fork begins cooking this very weekend, and we’ve got two tickets that let you walk around the Tasting Tent on Saturday, October 31st from 12:00 – 4:00 PM. You’ll learn, you’ll eat, you’ll schmooze, you’ll feel like you’re at the very nucleus of #rvadine activity. And it’s because you will be! Here’s a complete list of vendors.

These tickets run for $35, and we are very excited to be able to hand them over to you, especially if it means that you will learn new doughnut-making skills and try them out on our office. No pressure. Complete list of vendors here.

Scheduled Demos for Saturday, October 31st

  • 12:15 PM Demo: Dinner in the Field with Paige Healy and Gregorio Spinzo
  • 12:15 PM Demo: Matthew Tlusty of Julep’s on the Big Green Egg
  • 1:00 PM Demo: Steven Satterfield (+ book signing)
  • 1:00 PM Demo: J. M. Stock Provisions on the Big Green Egg
  • 1:30 PM Demo: Beer Floats with Devils Backbone Brewing and Gelati Celesti
  • 2:00 PM Demo: Joanne Chang of Flour (+book signing) with Courtney Mailey of Blue Bee Cider)
  • 3:00 PM Tent Talk: Toni Tipton Martin with Kendra Feather
  • 3:00 PM Demo: J.M. Stock Provisions on the Big Green Egg

How to enter

Please submit your entry via the form at the end of this post, and please do so by Friday, at 12:00 PM. We’ll make our random selection and give you tickets by email.

Read through our guide to Fire, Flour & Fork below, and choose your own culinary adventure!

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Original — October 20, 2015

The food, the stories, and the culinary culture of Richmond all converge at one button-busting four-day event–Fire, Flour & Fork–now in its second year. The event takes place at the end of this month, and while its base is at the Hilton Hotel at Broad and 6th Streets, its reach is much wider, stretching from Southside’s Southbound all the way to Surry, Virginia.

This is my second year on the Fire, Flour & Fork team; and I’m pretty tickled with how well this one is shaping up. If you love food and history, mark this weekend on your calendar right now.

Fire, Flour & Fork is a huge undertaking with somewhere around ONE MILLION things to see, do, and most importantly, eat. It can be daunting to someone who isn’t on the inside to know what to choose. So, I made a guide, organized according to “culinary personality type,” my way of parsing the program to make it a little more palatable. The stuff on this list is only the so-far-not-sold-out stuff, so the gettin’s still good, as they say.

What’s THE big event that no one should miss? That’s the Beaux Arts Ball, a Halloween costume ball at the Jefferson Hotel, with over a dozen local and national chefs, tunes spun by Constantine Giavos, and skulls projected by Noah Scalin. Dress as your favorite Richmond building–this party is all about celebrating Richmond art and architecture!

RVA REDZEPI, LOCAVORE

It’s imperative for you to know your food chain, link by link. Where your ingredients come from is as important to you as how they taste, and you’re in good company with a Farm-to-Fork dinner at Ellwood Thompson’s with Joe Kindred of Bon Appetit‘s “Hot 10” restaurant Kindred in Davidson, N.C.; presentations by hog farmers and butchers, a tasting tent chock-full of Virginia-made products; a Virginia ham tasting; and an Urban State Fair celebrating Virginia Agriculture.

Meals

Artisan Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad

  • Samples and sales by Virginia’s finest food producers (October 30th & 31st, 12:00 – 4:00 pm)

Class Pass Demo at the Hilton Downtown

Miscellaneous Foodery

  • Urban State Fair at the Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad (November 1st, 11:00 – 3:00 PM) FREE!

HANK HILL, KING OF THE GRILL

For you, cooking on the grill is a year-round lifestyle choice. Your well-loved grill has its own bottle-opener, and you pride yourself in your ability to dust the snow off your Big Green Egg and keep on cookin’. Put down the lighter fluid and check out some charbroiled demonstrations, part of the Class Pass and the Artisan Tasting Tent.

Start your day on Friday with breakfast cooked on the Big Green Egg grill by Next Food Network Star contestant Linkie Marais. Then feel the fire with Katie Button’s “The Secrets of Spanish Peppers” presentation. Let American Grilled’s David Guas tell you his five essential barbecue ingredients, and then stick around to watch demonstrations by the sausage masters at JM Stock Provisions under Harvest Grocery Supply’s Artisan Tasting Tent.

Meals

Artisan Tasting Tent at Broad and 6th

  • Harvest/JM Stock Demonstrations (October 30th and 31st, 12:00 – 4:00 PM)

Class Pass Demos at the Hilton Downtown

  • Chef Linkie Marais Brings Breakfast on the Egg (October 30th, 9:00 AM)
  • The Secrets of Spanish Peppers with Asheville’s Katie Button of Curate (October 30th, 10:00 AM)
  • How to Use Gun Powder with K.N. Vinod of Indique (October 31st, 10:00 PM)
  • Five Essential Barbecue Ingredients with American Grilled‘s David Guas (October 31st, 11:15 AM)

CAPTAIN BUBBLES, SAUCY DRINKOLOGIST

Wine! Beer! Liquor! There will be a little bit of each throughout this culinary celebration because, let’s face it, what would a celebration be without drinks? Dry, that’s what.

There will be cider and the apples from which it came, a beer-to-burger circle of life with Devil’s Backbone, battling bartenders, and, of course, champagne and caviar. Drink responsibly!

Meals

  • Beer vs. Wine at Graffiato with Mike Isabella and Marjorie Meek-Bradley (October 29th, 6:00 or 8:30 PM seatings)
  • Brunch and Presentation: Legs & Eggs with Jason Tesauro of Barboursville Vineyards and Dylan Fultineer at Rappahannock (November 1st, 11:00 AM)
  • Sunday Supper: Day of the Dead Supper at Saison with tequila master German Gonzalez (November 1st, 5:30 and 8:00 PM seatings)

Class Pass Demo

  • Sweet, Savory and Salt–Kansas City’s Celina Tio and [Duvel])http://www.duvel.com/_ USA’s Master Cicerone Neil Witte prepare and pair three dishes with beer (October 30th, 10:00 AM. It’s 12:00 PM somewhere!)
  • Apples to Apples to Cider with Diane Flynt of Foggy Ridge Cider (October 30th, 11:00 AM)
  • Beer to Bun and Back with Warren Haskell of Devils Backbone Brewing and Station 2. (October 31st, 11:15 AM)
  • Tequila! From Blancos to Reposados to Anejos (October 31st, 12:00 PM)

Artisan Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad

Miscellaneous Foodery

JULIE AND JULIA, LOST IN COOKBOOK LAND

Whether you actually use them for their recipes or you see them more as decorative additions, you own a drool-inducing cookbook collection, and you show no signs of slowing down your hunt for the best cookbook for every occasion. After this weekend, you’re going to need a bigger shelf.

Learn the fine art of entertaining with Better Homes and Gardens East Coast Editor Eddie Ross, author of Modern Mix. Feel the fire with Southern Heat author Anthony Lamas. Perfect your baking with Flour author Joanne Chang, and get down to your roots with Root to Leaf author and Miller Union chef Steven Satterfield.

Meal

Class Pass Demo

  • Presentation: Meet the Mix Meister from Better Homes and Gardens (October 31st, 10:00 AM)
  • Demo and book signing: Southern Heat with Louisville’s Anthony Lamas. (October 31st, 11:15 AM)

Artisan Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad

Tour

MOMS & POPS, CHEFS DE LA MAISON

You’ve put in your time over the stove, creating four-star meals for your family of four. Now it’s your turn to watch someone else do the cooking, and maybe pick up a recipe or two along the way. From pie to biscuits to Christmas cookies, they’re putting it all on the plate and showing you how, step by step. There’s even a chance to bring your kid to cook with you and Master Chef Bryan Voltaggio, so you can train the next generation to carry on in your delicious footsteps!

Meal

  • Sunday Supper: Kids Master the Kitchen Dinner at Family Meal with Master Chef Bryan Voltaggio. Ticket is for child and guardian. (November 1st, 5:00 PM) Bring your child!

Class Pass Demos

  • Pie Crust Musts with Susan Reid of King Arthur Flour (October 30th, 11:00 AM)
  • Biscuit Bash with Lisa Donovan of Buttermilk Road (October 31st, 9:00 AM)
  • Put Your Holiday Cookie Plate on Steroids with Chicago’s Mindy Segal of HotChocolate (October 31st, 10:00 AM)

Artisan Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad

  • Artisan Tasting Tent with samples and sales by Virginia’s finest food producers. (October 30th – October 31st, 12:00 – 4:00 PM)

Miscellaneous Foodery

  • Urban State Fair at the Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad (November 1st, 11:00 – 3:00 PM) FREE!

DOWNTOWN ALTON BROWN, CULINARY SCHOLAR

You’ve stored up so many bits of food knowledge over the years that you’ve started narrating imaginary episodes of Good Eats every time you’re in the kitchen. You want to explore food’s ins and outs, the histories and mysteries, with a magnifying glass and a map. Bring your notepad and a pen, you’re not going to want to miss these thought-provoking discussions and presentations. Trace the roots of Appalachian cuisine, hear the stories of Virginia Thanksgivings past, explore the path of farm-to-table cuisine, and get an insider’s perspective on the restaurant industry right now.

Meals

Class Pass Demos

Artisan Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad

Miscellaneous Foodery

  • National Treasures Tour (Sally Bell’s and CF Sauer) with reception and book signing with Mindy Segal, author of Cookie Love (October 30th, 3:30 – 6:00 PM)
  • Urban State Fair at the Tasting Tent at 6th and Broad (November 1st, 11:00 – 3:00 PM) FREE!

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