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2003 NATIONAL CORNBREAD COOK-OFF
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1st Place, Gaynell Lawson, of Tennessee, won over the judges with her "White Chicken Chili with Cheddar Hushpuppy Crust." She was awarded a FiveStar 30-inch gas range valued at $2,500, plus $4,000. (Contest sponsors added $1,000 to the published $3,000 first place prize at the awards ceremony.)
In 2nd Place, CCCentral member Nikki Norman, of Tennessee and Florida, took home $500, and in 3rd Place, CCCentral member Norita Solt, of Iowa, took home $300. The remaining seven finalists, including CCCentral members, Linda Spranger, of Mich., and Mike Trantham, of Texas, were awarded $100 cash. Plus, all 10 finalists received special gifts from Lodge Cast iron and Martha White.
The Food Network show "All American Festivals" were filming at the cook-off for two days. The National Cornbread Festival episode will air this fall.
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Cornbread Finalists and judges (back row) await
the announcement of the 2003 cook-off winners.
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Finalists cooked outdoors under a tent, talking
with the festival crowd while preparing their entries.
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| CCC Member Nikki Norman’s last festival interview for The Food Network’s show "All American Festivals." Nikki and Martha Davis, S.C., were selected by the show’s producers to be filmed before, during and after the cook-off.
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Nikki Norman was posed some tough interview questions by Matthew Anderson, a 4th grader at David Lipscomb Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., doing a history project on the subject "cornbread."
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