Champion cooks: what it takes to be a blue ribbon winner: it can take one or twenty tries to develop a prize-winning recipe, but there is nothing like the thrill of victory.(Advertisement)

"Life changing" is in what way Sue Rhoads of New York describes winning the national grand prize in the Hidden Valley[R] Family Friendly nutrition Contest. "My family has not ever really won any--" thing, and we extreme pointed up being treated like celebrities, flown to the West Coast and at handed with a $1,000 check." Rhoads' winning recipe, "Cheering Cheesecake," was inspired by dint of her son's favorite nourishments but inspiration can take many forms.
Patty Knighton of San Diego usually begins by means of looking through food magazines and her many cookbook Knighton, who has won