"Nickel City Chef is unique to Buffalo. No other city in the nation hosts an ongoing challenge featuring local chefs and local ingredients before a live audience. Meet the chefs behind the scenes in Buffalo's top restaraunts. Discover dozens of local ingredients and meet those who grow and produce them. Try your hand at any of the 32 fabulous recipes from Nickel City Chef Challenges--all calling from Western New York ingredients, from shiitake mushrooms to pasture-raised heritage pork. Watch the 50-minute documentary by Nathan Peracciny on the companion DVD promoting the farm-to-fork movement, featuring Nickel City Chefs, local ingredients, and lots of live Nickel City Chef Challenge action."--p. [4] of cover.