{"id":422579,"date":"2010-03-12T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2010-03-12T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:06:09","slug":"pricci-pastry-chef-jennifer-etchison-wins-great-american-baking-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/422579","title":{"rendered":"Pricci pastry chef Jennifer Etchison wins Great American Baking Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2789\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 243px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2789\" title=\"-4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/42-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Etchison accepts award from Q100's Jeff Dauler\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Etchison accepts award from Q100&#39;s Jeff Dauler<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last night I helped judge the 3rd annual <strong>Great American Baking Contest<\/strong> &#8212; a fun local event that raises money for <a href=\"http:\/\/strength.org\/\"><strong>Share our Strength<\/strong><\/a>. Contestants in three categories &#8212; professional, amateur, children &#8212; enter baked good, and a panel of overfed judges scores them and hands out prizes. This year, the event took place at the wonderful new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookswarehouse.com\">Cook&#8217;s Warehouse<\/a><\/strong> in Ansley Mall.<\/p>\n<p>I left <strong>Alon Balshan (Alon&#8217;s Bakery), Kathryn King (Aria) and Jonathan St. Hilaire (Bakeshop)<\/strong> to judge the kids and amateurs, while I focused on the professional entries with <strong>Mary Moore<\/strong>, owner of Cook&#8217;s Warehouse. (It was a blind tasting, with no chef identified.) We ended up with a kazillion-way tie after trying a lot of great desserts that each could&#8217;ve used a small tweak or improvement.<\/p>\n<p>There was a gorgeous and complex <em>charlotte<\/em> undone by a (seeming) overload of rosewater, an exquisitely decorated layered torte that didn&#8217;t really sing with its advertised cherry &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etchison accepts award from Q100&#39;s Jeff Dauler Last night I helped judge the 3rd annual Great American Baking Contest &#8212; a fun local event that raises money for Share our Strength. Contestants in three categories &#8212; professional, amateur, children &#8212; enter baked good, and a panel of overfed judges scores them and hands out prizes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}