No fires here: Chef earns World Recipe Champion
Beth Peterson says starting a fire last weekend during the World Food Championships in Las Vegas was one of the more stressful moments of the competition. But that “oops” didn’t stop her from becoming the World Recipe Champion.
The Naperville resident came away with the $10,000 prize after two intense cooking rounds Nov. 9.
“The competition was filmed and will be on A&E TV in the spring,” Peterson says. “I know they filmed me,” she says referring to the stress-filled moment when she accidentally set her box of pasta on fire by setting it on an electric burner.
In the first round, she had to submit two pasta dishes. She entered her signature white chicken chili, and her gourmet macaroni and cheese. In the second round, she had to create a dish incorporating bison and pasta.
“After celebrating until after midnight on Saturday, the winners were called into a room and given directions for the final table contest,” Peterson says.
By 10 the next morning, she had to be ready with two entries, including one that showcased Las Vegas. She rallied her friends, Oswego chefs Gail Huesmann and Vita Jarrin, to strategize and then set out at 4 a.m. to go shopping.
Her final entries included an elevated cascading pasta, which she called Lucky Linguini.
Although she didn’t win the World Food Champion title, she is pleased to be World Recipe Champion, one of the seven categories at the event.
“Although I didn’t win, I was glad that Dave Elliot and his mother did win,” she said. “They entered with his mom’s recipe, and they won the title.”
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