Local chefs compete for title
In a kitchen smaller than a typical seminar room, six event organizers, four reporters, three celebrity judges, two cameramen, and 16 chefs, sous-chefs, and student-assistants scuttled between hot burners, chopping blocks and tables piled high with food to crown New Haven’s next Iron Chef.
The second-annual Iron Chef–Elm City contest took place at Gateway Community College on Sunday afternoon, featuring a three-way battle between local chefs Arturo Franco-Camacho, Manuel Romero and Rafael Palomino, of Bespoke, Ibiza and Pacifico, respectively. In the Latin-themed cooking...