The Fabulous Food Show was held at the I-X Center this past weekend, November 14-16. This annual culinary event hosted several popular celebrity chefs, as well as over 150 different food exhibitors. There were many free samples being handed out, and also a wine a beer tasting event.

One of the celebrity chefs, Curtis Stone, put on live demonstration of his cooking talents. It was very entertaining, keeping the entire crowd involved throughout the feature, and even allowed several people from the audience to go onstage and help. The atmosphere and crowd involvement helped to form this show which was definitely not the typical culinary performance.

The exhibitors had many booths set up in aisles that ran throughout the I-X Center. Some local companies and many others more widespread were lined up together to show and sample their product to the visitors.

Bubba's Bar-B-Q & Catering is a local, and world famous restaurant named for Al "Bubba" Baker, , the former Cleveland Brown. This bbq featured samples of their food and handed out pamphlets for the restaurant which included a menu and the location of the establishment.

Cookie Cupboard: Gourmet Cookie Dough, of Cleveland, had a table set up at the show with baked cookies for people to sample. This company features many different cookie flavors, including coconut, mint chocolate and white macadamia nut. They had tubs of cookie dough for sale, along with brownie and gourmet muffin dough. With the holiday season quickly approaching, they did a good job of offering specialty items as gift ideas.

If you were unlucky enough to miss this tasty event, don’t worry too much. Just be sure to catch it when if comes around next year. November 13-15, 2009 – mark those calendars. Come hungry, because you won’t be when you leave.