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the 10th annual Blacksburg for king cork
is the new river valleys premier food
wine and art festival happening this
Saturday joining us to talk about the
event we have Kelsey Grove the director
of marketing and events for the
Blacksburg partnership thanks so much
for coming in for having us so 10 years
is is great yeah it's really exciting so
like you said it's our 10th year the
festival will be this Saturday April
21st from 1 to 6 we're gonna have 21
Virginia wineries including our host
winery once again Belliveau State great
food our live music cooking demos wine
seminars it's gonna be great so this
year is 10 years are you doing something
special to celebrate 10 years so we have
some fun new activities this year we
have some roaming performances and
artists that will be there we're really
excited to have chef T from Hell's
Kitchen and take part in our chef demos
and we'll also we have two new vendors
this year that are hosting a tasting
tent so they're going to have a
four-course wine and food pairing menu
which will be really cool it looks great
so attendees should check it out okay
now you know ten years is a long time
for an event to go on why do you think
it's been such a popular event I think
that it is Blacksburg is such a great
location it's a wonderful community and
it's a great time for people to come out
have a great time with their friends and
family and it's outdoors there's a lot
to try you can bring your dogs I mean
it's just a fantastic event and so I
think each year people enjoy coming out
and trying everything have you ever been
to this event okay guys I have not
because I normally had a work on
weekends because something is always we
always do a forecast for it and it just
always seems it sounds amazing how's the
forecast looking that's this weekend
right yes yeah looking pretty good six
peas 16 bit of sunshine yeah I love it
so talk about some of the vendors that
people can expect there are they all
local vendors we have all of the
wineries are Virginia wineries and then
our artists are for the most part from
the area we have a couple from outside
of the New River Valley and
from out of state but for the most part
everyone is local all of our restaurants
most of them are gonna be from the newer
Valley and Roanoke so is it is it
kid-friendly too
yes yes children are welcome and are
there like things for kids to do not
particularly but we they're more than
welcome to come so so let's let's talk
about tickets they're on sale now right
but there's only a few left
so there's regular tickets are available
still we only have a few of our premium
tickets left so not many more of those
we're expecting them to last maybe
tomorrow to Friday but you can get them
online or at either Blacksburg Kroger
okay so give us the details on the event
one more time so the event is this
Saturday April 21st from 1:00 to 6:00
p.m. and our premium and VIP admission
begins at 12:00 so okay early access
okay well you mentioned chef tea and we
are pretty excited because chef teas in
our kitchen Kelsey thank you so much but
chef tea is working hard in our kitchen
right now making what you call the the
celebration of bacon yes so talk about
your your role with the Blacksburg
forkin course alright so for king cork
this is my first time doing it I've done
other festivals like it but to be in
Virginia and be a part of something
that's celebrating 10 years it's going
to be awesome so I am actually
partnering with us foods and I'm going
to when they approached me they said
chef we need to have fun with food this
year I said awesome what's more fun than
bacon so we're gonna do a celebration of
bacon from snout to tail so today I'm
actually not making the dish that I'm
gonna make there because I want people
to come out to that demo catch me live
on the big stage 3:30 I am doing my own
smaller celebration of bacon today we're
doing bacon-wrapped scallops 2.0 so we
have some scallops yeah and then we took
a really nice fatty fish like salmon
wrapped it around the scallop and then
finished it with bacon we're gonna
finish that with a little green apple
relish yeah you know I recently this is
inspired by my recent trip to Japan and
it's it's just got me into mind
where I'm pushing the boundaries more
when it comes to food because I've
learned so much I spent 10 days over
there just engrossing myself in the
culture and eating and I'm I'm excited
to cook for everyone on Saturday it's
going to be amazing so I'll give you a
sneak peek it involves pork belly the
mothership of bacon yes there you go
fantastic so remind us again if this
week and your thing is at 3:30 so my
demo is at 3:30 I'm on a big stage at
3:30 come on by
talk to me ask questions feel free I am
very easygoing and I'm easy to interact
with
ok so we'll be back in the kitchen we're
going to be making this up a smaller
version of your celebration of bacon