Columbus Dispatch Fall Home & Garden Show 2018

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AT THE SHOW: taste award-winning recipes

Easy as pie? Not so, say Ohio State Fair food-award winners

Disaptch Special Sections | Thursday, September 6, 2018

By GARY SEMAN JR. Dispatch Media Group

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Some of Ohio’s most creative cooks, all judged at one of the toughest proving grounds in the state, will join The Columbus Dispatch Fall Home & Garden Show. Award-winning pie-makers and other cooks from this year’s Ohio State Fair will offer cooking demonstrations and samples of their food at Home & Garden Show, on Friday starting at noon on the Home Stage. Karri Perry of West Chester, a suburb of Cincinnati, nabbed a blue ribbon for her cheddar-cheese bread and best-of-show honors for her autumn caramel apple pie.

Pick up copies of Blue Ribbon recipes at the Show.

Yet, the accolades only serve to make her more determined to keep up the good work, she said. “What helped me to become a blue-ribbon winner has a lot to do with believing that I could win, always looking for ways to improve, both the recipe and myself as a competitor,” Perry said. “Although I may have won a handful of blue ribbons, I

always remember that I still have more to learn, and I try to stay open to new ideas, and new ways of doing things,” she said. “I am always learning something new about baking.” First-place winner Ella Chow of Dublin will present her gummy candy shaped like a trefoil, one of the many styles of Girl Scout Cookies. “This shape symbolizes part of our Girl Scout Promise: To serve God and my country, to help people at all times and to live by the Girl Scout law,” said Chow, an elementary-school student. “I think my dish was a winner

because it is a creative candy and is a Girl Scout theme.” Sandy Libertini, art director for the Ohio State Fair, said hundreds of people vie for first-, second- and thirdplace awards in more than 100 food categories. Libertini said she recruits some of the toughest judges in the state, many from the Ohio State University Food Science and Technology program and those who spent years in food service. “These people are serious – they’re serious about their recipes and they love doing it,” Libertini said of the competitors. “You’ll see the same

people year after year. “I think for many of them it’s just a goal,” she said. “It’s something they want to achieve.” She said the judges also are quite serious about their duties. “The judges do not give out a first, second or third (place award) unless the quality is there,” Libertini said. Anna Smith of Columbus is fairly new to the cooking scene at the Ohio State Fair but no stranger to awards. In

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