10th annual Curry Clash celebrates Lincolns diversity with culinary art [Video]

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – It was one of the hottest tickets in town on Thursday, and likely the hottest food, too.

The 10th annual Curry Clash brought more than dozen chefs together for a friendly competition at the Sandhills Global Event Center, serving up distinct dishes from across the world in an effort to celebrate Lincoln’s diversity.

A burst of spice in each of the dishes across 22 stations left the roughly 400 attendees of the Asian Community and Cultural Center event smiling.

“You can tell every table people are happy,” Nazim Khan, a master chef who brought is creation to the competition, said. “They forget about their stress. They forget about all those negativity in their life. They’re engaging each other.”

And it’s much more than a competition.

“It is absolutely, you know, a picture of Lincoln,” Dr. Paul Gausman, Lincoln Public Schools superintendent, said.

Thursday was Gausman’s first ever Curry Clash, and he participated as …