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" 2009 Grand Prize winner: Suellen Calhoun, Des Moines, IA Winning recipe: Onion Polenta with Spiced Tomato Avocado Salad Prize: $25,000, an expenses-paid trip to New York City, Cuisinart appliances, and French&amp;#039;s products Runner-up recipes: Finalist recipes included French&amp;#039;s Party Pinwheels, Irresistible BBQ Turkey, Stoplight Sausage Stuffed Peppers, and Cheery-Cheery Chicken with Crispy Onion Grits. Highlights and Details Five national recipe finalists flew to New York City to compete in French&amp;#039;s First-Ever Live National Cooking Competition on February 25, 2010. The challenge was to create an original family meal, using at least one French&amp;#039;s product, and no more than eight ingredients, which would be ready to serve in under an hour. Twenty-five hundred recipes were submitted to the contest, and five entries were chosen to be prepared live before the panel of judges. Suellen Calhoun of Des Moines, Iowa, took home the grand prize of $25,000 for her Onion Polenta with Spiced Tomato Avocado Salad. A frequent participant in cooking contests, Calhoun said that she planned to donate most of her winnings to the missionary work she holds close to her heart, including humanitarian agencies such as Kids for Hunger, which sends packaged meals to Haiti. For more information about the French&amp;#039;s cook-off, visit frenchs.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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