{"id":2094215,"date":"2025-10-16T00:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2094215"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:31:31","slug":"celebrity-chef-tristen-epps-discusses-food-prize-prize-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celebrity-chef-tristen-epps-discusses-food-prize-prize-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity chef Tristen Epps discusses Food Prize, Prize Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/10\/17\/PSHR\/75715871007-image-2.jpeg?crop=4031,2268,x0,y0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Gregory Kallenberg, founder and executive director of the Prize Foundation, at Come and Get It<\/p>\n<p>Night one of Prize Fest, &#8216;Come and Get It\u2019, Wednesday evening October 16, 2024, at The Remington Suite Hotel in downtown Shreveport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prize Fest is a five-day event in downtown Shreveport featuring celebrity comedians, filmmakers, musicians and chefs.<\/li>\n<li>Top Chef winner Tristen Epps is returning for his seventh year, bringing six other celebrity chefs with him.<\/li>\n<li>The festival, which began as Film Prize in 2014, now includes competitions for food, music and comedy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the next five days, the streets of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2024\/10\/16\/live-blog-inside-night-one-of-prize-fest-come-and-get-it\/75702796007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2024\/10\/16\/live-blog-inside-night-one-of-prize-fest-come-and-get-it\/75702796007\/\">downtown Shreveport<\/a> are going to be filled with celebrity comedians, filmmakers, musicians and chefs.<\/p>\n<p>This congregation of creatives is part of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2025\/10\/03\/celebrity-chefs-join-shreveport-chefs-competing-in-food-prize-2025\/86496533007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2025\/10\/03\/celebrity-chefs-join-shreveport-chefs-competing-in-food-prize-2025\/86496533007\/\">2025 Prize Fest<\/a>. But as celebrity chef, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2025\/09\/12\/top-chef-winner-will-host-celebrity-chef-bbq-takeover-at-prize-fest-in-shreveport\/86095953007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2025\/09\/12\/top-chef-winner-will-host-celebrity-chef-bbq-takeover-at-prize-fest-in-shreveport\/86095953007\/\">Tristen Epps<\/a> said, &#8220;it&#8217;s the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The people and culture of northwest Louisiana are bringing these celebrities to Shreveport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hospitality really keeps bringing me back,&#8221; Epps said.<\/p>\n<p>Epps, a Top Chef winner, has come to Shreveport seven times to participate as a judge in Prize Fest. This year, he is bringing six celebrity chefs who were featured on Season 22 of &#8220;Top Chef,&#8221; and they will be doing a demo and barbecue event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I usually like to try to show at least one person Prize Fest every year,&#8221; Epps said. &#8220;This year I got to bring six&#8230; the best chefs that Shreveport has ever seen come in to Shreveport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prize Fest, which initially began with Film Prize in 2014, has evolved into a five-day festival featuring food, music, film and comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Food Prize is composed of Come &amp; Get It, Celebrity Chef BBQ and Battle for the Golden Fork.<\/p>\n<p>Food Prize will kick off Wednesday, Oct. 15, with Come and Get it. This event is the official kickoff to Prize Fest \u2014 each local Golden Fork chef finalist, with a nationally recognized celebrity chef, will create an unforgettable tasting.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Oct. 17, will be Celebrity Chef BBQ Takeover \u2014 Bravo\u2019s Top Chef Season 22 winner Tristen Epps and the Food Prize celebrity chefs join forces with local chefs for a one-of-a-kind barbecue lunch on Prize Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it would be really cool to do something that everybody kind of relates to here in Shreveport,&#8221; Epps said. &#8220;We have people coming from Texas, New York, L.A., and then within those, everyone has a different culture, from Korean, Jewish to Chinese&#8230; I thought that having BBQ was a cool equalizer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final Food Prize event is Saturday, Oct. 18, and is known as Battle for the Golden Fork. In this event, the top three Golden Fork finalists face off in a high-energy, Chopped-style showdown live on the streets of downtown Shreveport.<\/p>\n<p>One chef will walk away with $5,000, bragging rights and the coveted Golden Fork Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Food Prize, visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prizefest.com\/food\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.prizefest.com\/food\/\">www.prizefest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2024\/10\/16\/live-blog-inside-night-one-of-prize-fest-come-and-get-it\/75702796007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LIVE BLOG: Inside Prize Fest&#8217;s Food Prize Come and Get It Culinary Experience<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with The Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.shreveporttimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Kallenberg, founder and executive director of the Prize Foundation, at Come and Get It Night one of Prize Fest, &#8216;Come and Get It\u2019, Wednesday evening October 16, 2024, at The Remington Suite Hotel in downtown Shreveport. Prize Fest is a five-day event in downtown Shreveport featuring celebrity comedians, filmmakers, musicians and chefs. 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