It turns out that Alabama chef Brody Olive's recent win at the Great American Seafood Cook-Off was years in the making, as he pursued some unusual inspiration.
for the Alabama Seafood Cook-Off, and Olive was among them. That alone was a solid accomplishment: At the time, Smith said that the state competition had received the highest number of entries in its history.
Their win at the state competition sent them to New Orleans for the Aug. 5 national finale, where the pressure ratcheted up hugely. Now they’d have an hour to do battle with 11 other competitors, before a lively, and much larger, audience than before. They had another wow factor that almost backfired. Olive had to smoke his fish on-site and for that he used a small portable smoker box he’d seen young chefs use in ProStart cooking competitions put on by the National Restaurant Association Education Foundation.
Plates served it was time for Olive to shift gears, stand up in front of the crowd and tell the story of Perdido Pass, and of a bad day fishing on its jetties. Then came the wait before finally the third-place finisher was named, then the second. And then Olive’s name was called. However, he added, the exercise wasn’t in vain. Coming up with the winning dish, and executing it, meant that he and Silvestre had to challenge themselves to try new techniques, push into new territory. Some of their discoveries may well carry over into what they do at Perdido Beach Resort.
“The support I have here is just amazing, as far as what do we want to do, and supporting visions and supporting thoughts and ideas, and being able to try stuff,” he said.
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