What a week!!!! I’m back in Lexington, after an action-packed weekend in San Antonio and a great visit with my sister in Austin. I can’t even begin to describe the whole experience at NCCC in one post, but I will say that I had such a wonderful time meeting the other 8 contestants and getting [...]
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It’s Christine again. Just wanted to let you know that Brigitte has been burning up the radio waves this week. Both shows have podcasts if you’d like to listen to Brigitte discuss the National Chicken contest in-depth:
“America’s Dining and Travel” on Business Talk Radio
Sunday, May 3, 2009
4pm - 5pm EST
Podcast available to download (Hour 2)
Whether [...]
Hi! This is Christine, Brigitte’s sister, writing in. We’re a couple days behind the news, but I just wanted to share with you all the press release covering Brigitte’s Grand Prize win at the National Chicken Cooking Contest!
Kentucky Woman’s Ground-Chicken Burger with Asian Zing Wins $50,000 in National Chicken Cooking Contest
SAN ANTONIO — May 2, [...]
I always go for the food section in every newspaper I read and I’m a big fan of Sharon Thompson’s, the Lexington Herald Leader’s food writer. Michael’s mom, Katy, bought me a signed copy of her cookbook, Flavors of Kentucky, which really helped me acquaint myself with local specialties. Come check out her blog as [...]
1. National Chicken Contest Update
I’m going to San Antonio!!! I just found out that I’m the regional winner and will get to go to Texas to compete for the grand prize. (They haven’t announced this yet on the National Chicken website, so hopefully they won’t change their minds about me in the meantime.)
2. See my [...]
I’m excited to tell you that I’ve been announced as the Kentucky State winner for the National Chicken Cooking Contest. This is definitely one of the biggies, and it only comes around every two years!
There will be a regional judging and then if I pass that, I get to proceed to the finals in San [...]
The Build-A-Better Burger (say that 3 times fast) people have the whole event covered on their blog. If you want to see specific posts that mention or picture yours truly, see:
New BBB Record!
Drum Roll, please…
And the verdict?
…2nd place in the Alternative Burger category!!!
Of course, I would have been happier with coming in first, but not [...]
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of practice runs and spending way too much money on new kitchen gadgets to bring out to Napa with me. Make sure you’re thinking of me from 9:30AM (my start time) -12:30PM
(my judging time) PDT this Saturday. I need the good vibes!
For a quick preview, Sutter Home [...]
A few weeks ago, we were doing our Vietnamese unit in my international cuisine class at school. The chef asked me to do the lecture and to prepare a few recipes i wanted to make…I have been craving the traditional Vietnamese sandwich: banh mi thit, complete with all the fixin’s: pate, baguette, pickled carrot [...]
