Marc Summers, an Indianapolis native returns home to host a Cake Race Food Network Challenge at the Indianapolis 500. Get in the audience and maybe catch a glimpse of yourself on television when the challenge is aired in October on the Food Network.
Summers covers the sweeter things in life as host of Food Network’s “Unwrapped and “Trivia Unwrapped.” Viewers can also see him on the reality series, “The Next Food Network Star.”
“It’s going to be so cool to go back,” Summers said. “I haven’t been to the actual race for so long.”
The challenges do extremely well and audiences like them at live events such as the 500, Summers said. Challenges are not his usual job, but when he found out the network would do one at the 500-mile race, he wanted the job.
“I did a show called the national team pastry competition in Wisconsin and was the most mind blowing experience of my life,” Summers said.
Visitors to the challenge stage will get to see area chefs face-off in a cake competition, he said.
“I’ll be doing the play-by-play,” Summers added.
Three judges will ultimately decide the winner.
The challenges will take place adjacent to the Hall of Fame Museum inside the track’s main gate, Gate 2. Jim McMillan of the Conrad Indianapolis Hotel, Linda Shonk of the Sweet Art Galleries and Dan Marinkovich of the Meridian Hills Country Club will face off in a themed cake challenge. The challenges are a traveling event of the Food Network.
A large Jumbo video screen will help bring what is happening up close to the guests at the event.
The Food Network has also set up a challenge bar and will stage professional and amateur bartender’s showing off their skills like Tom Cruise in “Cocktail.” Audience members will get the chance to try their hand at it too.
Another feature of the challenge will be an interactive kiosk where the public be able to interact with Foodnetwork.com and shoot a short video and post it or e-mail it to family and friends.
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A dream cabin in the woods
Phil Hatter regularly told his children that once they were all grown, he would build a log cabin in the country. They didn’t believe him. “I think log homes are really neat, but they have to be put in the right place,” he said.
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Jim Bailey: Jim Carter made football a respectable sport at AHS
When I first came to Anderson in 1951, Jim Carter had been named head football coach at Anderson High School. At that time, football at AHS was little more than an activity to get out of the way to make room for basketball season. The Indians were known to play two games in the same week to shorten the season.
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Community Briefs: May 27
A compilation of community news as published in the Sunday edition of The Herald Bulletin.
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Remember When: May 27
The slide was one of the more popular attractions at the Falls Park swimming area in Pendleton as evidenced by the number of people waiting their turn on the slide’s steps and its top platform.
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Champions League makes everyone a winner
The Champions League — in its 12th season — is sponsored by the Pendleton Junior Baseball Association and is open to anyone 5 to 18 with physical and developmental disabilities.
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History: Lapel Telephone Co. was talk of town
In November 1962, when the Lapel Telephone Co. was sold to United Utilities by the children of founder Earl Tull, a Madison County era ended.
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Back in the News: May 27
The Herald Bulletin looks back at stories from the Anderson Daily Bulletin and The Anderson Herald newspapers.
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Howard Hewitt: 'Pink' wines growing in popularity
Those silly looking pink wines in your favorite wine shop or liquor store are gaining respect through robust sales.
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Nancy Vaughan: Tomorrow starts today
The United Way of Madison County's 2011 annual report seeks to recognize the individuals and organizations that contribute their resources to support investments and activities to increase the education, income and health of all who call Madison County home.
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Births: May 27
Local birth listings are published each Sunday in The Herald Bulletin. Birth announcements with a photo are available for a fee. Call The Herald Bulletin at 640-4800 for more information.
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