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Twelve Days Left to Scovie Deadline

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We are now only 12 days away from the Scovie deadline of September 6.

People always have questions about the Scovie Awards, so we’ve put together a list of Frequently Asked Questions, What makes us different from other contests? And why do we need four samples of each product entered? Find out the answers to these questions and more right here.

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Provocative New Food Porn Article Published

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Matt Yohalem, chef and owner of Il Piatto Italian Farmhouse Kitchen in Santa Fe, likes food porn.  In fact he revels in it in his new article on the Fiery Foods & Barbecue SuperSite, “In Defense of Food Porn.” He writes:”Make no mistake, the masters of the culinary world resent both of the terms “molecular gastronomy” and “food porn” because …

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Scovie Deadline Hits in Two Weeks

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“Winning back-to-back Scovie awards two years in a row was fantastic and helped open the doors to increased sales, but winning the 2012 Grand Prize Award for Tasting took us to a whole new level! We have quadrupled our distribution, taken our product international, and have been featured in industry periodicals and blogs increasing our product awareness. Having the Scovie sticker on our bottles and in our advertising gives us that ‘little edge’, setting us apart from our competitors.”–Mike Bross, Pancali Foods

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Playing with Fire: My Microfarm Experiment

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If you’re a home gardener, you’ve probably experienced the dreaded Zucchini Syndrome. Over-producing squash plants make the zukes faster than your family can eat them. You try to give them away, but no one wants them because they’re now larger than your cat. Well, the same thing can happen to chile plants, which is why I wrote Too Many Chiles with Nancy and Jeff Gerlach. But at least you can dry the chile pods to preserve them—something you can’t do easily with zucchinis and large tomatoes.