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What does it mean to win?

TheFoodGeek, contributor | October 1st, 20094 comments

Sometimes it's not enough to make great food. Sometimes you have to judge food formally. And sometimes you have to make up the rules by which things are judged. A look inside the process of making competition rules.

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Competition Pies

TheFoodGeek, contributor | May 28th, 20092 comments

If you're gearing up for your first pie competition, what sort of things can you do to prepare, and what do you do when it all goes wrong?

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