Deborah Pankey
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Judges create challenge recipesNov 02, 2011 6:00 am - I thought it would be fun, in a sadistic sort of way, to ask the men and women who judged recipes over the course of the Cook of the Week Challenge to come up with recip...
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Finalists for Cook of the Year compete tonightNov 01, 2011 11:00 pm - Sharp knives and restless nights. Those common threads emerged when I asked the four finalists in the Cook of the Week Challenge what they've been up to since learning a...
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Meet the judges in the final Round 2 challengeOct 26, 2011 6:00 am - Chef Jean-Loius Clerc French born and trained Jean-Louis Clerc joined the faculty of College of Dupage as executive chef at Waterleaf, the new student-staffed fine-...
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Judges weigh in on vanilla and salmon recipesOct 26, 2011 6:00 am - This last week of the recipe challenges saw some close scoring, but after the flour settled the judges selected Penny Kazmier and Mark Clemens to advance to the Nov. 2 l...
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Cook of the Week Challenge reaches final fourOct 25, 2011 11:00 pm - At first glance you might think that a 32-year-old graphic designer from Schaumburg, a 47-year-old South Barrington homemaker, a 54-year-old managing director from Antio...
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Cook of the Week Challenge Round 2Oct 19, 2011 11:00 am - The last four Cook of the Week Challenge contestants share their thoughts on creating recipes with their secret ingredients. Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract, pork cho...
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What judges have to say about Round 2 efforts in Cook of the Week ChallegeOct 19, 2011 6:00 am - With the live cook-off just two weeks away, I'm making today's contestants sweat it out. Instead of revealing if Jamie Andrade or Michael Lalagos won the Quaker Oats Old...
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Cake Boy, Cake Boss and custom kernelsOct 19, 2011 12:00 am - Since writing last week about the avalanche of baking books coming my way, even more have crossed my desk. So while I focused on cookie cookbooks last week, this week I'...
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New batch of baking booksOct 12, 2011 2:00 pm - By Deborah Pankey I don't need the calendar to tell me baking season has arrived; the stack of cookbooks piling higher on my desk has done that for me. Seems that if a n...
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Contestants head to kitchen for Round 2 challengesOct 12, 2011 6:00 am - I didn't set out to be mean. While I've been enjoying these unseasonably beautiful October weekends our Cook of the Week Challenge semifinalists have been in their kitch...