Meet the home cooks who've stepped up for chance at title - Cook of the Year 2018
Welcome back for the eighth annual Cook of the Week Challenge. Today, you'll meet the eight home cooks and learn a little about them such as their favorite ingredients, preferred kitchen tools and why they tossed their chef toques into the eighth annual competition.
Challenge one feedback from the cooks and judges will appear online and in print Oct. 10.
You can get to know this week's judges who evaluate each week's recipes.
In this challenge, all cooks face the same ingredients. Each week, judges will review their carefully crafted recipes. The judges will use a point system to evaluate the entries, and each week the cook with the lowest score will be eliminated. The recipes will be judged on creativity, use of ingredients, appearance, ease of preparation and perceived taste. It's a good thing our judges all hail from the food and culinary fields.
We'll photograph their entries, and the full recipes will appear online. You can follow the contest each Wednesday here in Food and at www.dailyherald.com/lifestyle/food/cook-of-the-week-challenge. Like us on Facebook/CookoftheWeek or follow on Twitter or Instagram to learn more about the cooks, the sponsors and how you can be part of the audience for the Nov. 12 finale.
Let the cooking begin!