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A tour of the country's competitive cooking circuit profiles the colorful personalities and events surrounding such contests as the Great Garlic Cook-Off, the World Champion Jambalaya Cooking Contest, and the Pillsbury Bake-Off. Reprint.
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Amy Sutherland has been a food and features writer for fifteen years. Her articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Disney magazine, and other publications.
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In this engrossing look at the competitive cooking circuit, journalist Sutherland follows the trail of competitions and a small group of regular participants. These often fanatical competitors, complete with their own Web sites and chat rooms, square off against the amateur one-time-only contenders at local and national levels across the country. With a healthy dose of humor, Sutherland conveys the inside stories and nail-biting moments as the regulars face off. From developing recipes to matching serving wear to outfits, the bravado of the male players and the disasters and pitfalls that can ensue for both regular and amateur alike, this work takes a long, thorough look at this American phenomenon. From chili contests that are more like frat parties to the National Chicken and National Beef competitions, Sutherland crisscrosses the country and along the way conveys her growing enthusiasm for and fascination with why one recipe or dish wins and another loses. She intersperses winning recipes with the account of her own growing delight, which leads her to enter a competition herself. Doing for cookoffs what Anthony Bourdain did for the restaurant business with Kitchen Confidential, Sutherland delivers a wonderful portrait of a true slice of Americana that should have readers reaching for their recipe files and saying, "I can do that."
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 014200474X
- ISBN 13 9780142004746
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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