Calling All Kids For Mascot Naming Competition
By Liz Mitchell
What's my name?
The Taste! Expo and Trade Show is calling all kids through age 12. The culinary event set for May 14-16 in Myrtle Beach has a Lil’ Chef mascot who needs a name. The winning entry will receive a stuffed mascot, two tickets to Freestyle Music Park, two dinner tickets and a guaranteed spot on stage during the Just-4-Kidz Demo at the event.
The mascot naming contest ends Feb. 14 with the winner to be named Feb. 17. The contest is sponsored by WBTW TV News along with Taste Shows. It’s an easy entry form with complete rules at www.scnow.com at keyword: Taste. Cecil Chandler, well known regional television personality from WBTW TV, will be introducing the winner and announcing the winning mascot name.
The Just-4-Kidz Cooking Tent will include a cooking demonstration by internationally recognized Chef Fabio Viviani, fan favorite of season five in Bravo Network’s Top Chef. Also, his business partner in the Los Angeles restaurant Firenze Osteria, the international award-winning mixologist Jacopo Fellini will teach kids how to make a fun fruity slushy. Chandler will be part of the many exciting activities for kids during the Taste! Expo as will the Supper Swap Girls.
Tickets are available now at Pronto Press in Myrtle Beach or at www.tasteshows.com for the cooking sessions for children which are limited to 25 in each age group.
Taste! is an experience of true gourmet, the premier food show in Myrtle Beach, scheduled for May 14 through 16 at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. The national show will include a wide variety of exhibits, tastings, dinners, children’s programs, seminars, a barbecue competition and celebrity appearance by Food Network chef Guy Fieri. The public is invited to order tickets online at www.tasteshows.com. Cost ranges from $7 general admission to $80 for stage seating during celebrity events, and all tickets are going fast. The stage seating for Guy Fieri’s event is sold out, but additional audience tickets are available.
The show is produced by KNB Productions, LLC, an experienced event production company with offices in Myrtle Beach and Ft. Lee, New Jersey. Sponsors are WBTW TV News; Pronto Press; Food Buzz; Prime Ticket Inc.; Crystallite Café; Kara Mia Gourmet Wine Jellies; the SC Barbecue Association; SC Parks, Recreation & Tourism; ITM Mobile; Growing Cooks; the SC Hospitality Association; SC Dept. of Agriculture and Uncle Pete’s BBQ Sauce.
For exhibitor or sponsor information, contact Kara Anne Serradimigni at info@taste-shows.com or 843-333-7972.
