In that final frame above, you can see the judges had it hard. Sitting in the large spacious lobby of the Second harvest Food Bank.

This was not an ACF sanctioned Food Competition, rather, special attention was given to the panel of judges in order to represent both the public and the culinary profession.
The Judges were:

Chef Richard Gerst C.E.C.  A.C.C. of Summit Medical Center - many years an Exec. Chef and Culinary Educator in Oprylands Apprentice Program.

Ronnie Gaw - Ronnie is the master Ice Cream maker in charge of Purity Dairies Ice Cream manufacturing division.

Ann Cox - Consumer Affairs & TV personality with Krogers Co. Supermarkets

Marcie - of CenterStone Community Resources- one of the recipients of the Childhood Hunger funds.

The competition was held as a annonymous blind tasting, where the judges used the guidelines of the ACF criterion and knowing each dish by number only. The judges were isolated from the event floor and each dish was brought to them in succession by runners.

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