Jan 14, 2016Michigan woman wins $5,000 and Top Spud honor
Bridgett Blough, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, won $5,000 and the title of Top Spud” in the Spud Nation Throwdown Cook-off competition among three food truck chefs at the POTATO EXPO 2016.
Sponsored by the National Potato Council, the competing chefs, Blough, Daniel McCarthy, of Columbus, Ohio, and Heather Banter, of Indianapolis, featured potato dishes in competition for the monetary award and the title of “Top Spud.”
Blough’s winning entrée was a green tahini potato soup.
In above photo: Daniel McCarthy, left, Bridget Blough, center, and Heather Banter. photo by Bill Schaefer
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