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" Mezzetta Make That Sandwich Contest 2009 Grand Prize winner: Ninette Holbrook, Orlando, FL Winning recipe: Open-Faced Wine Braised Fig and Caramelized Onion Sandwich Prize: $25,000 and a trip for two to Napa Valley $1,000 Category-Winning Recipes: Cold: My B\u00E1nh M\u00EC Chick by Peter Halferty, Corpus Christi, TX Hot: Kona Po&amp;#039; Boy Virginia Suddath, Kehei, HI Celebrity sandwich: You can take a bite out of &amp;quot;Woody Allen&amp;quot; at New York&amp;#039;s Carnegie Deli. Highlights and Details Ninette Holbrook, a newcomer to the scene of competitive cooking, amazed the judges of the Mezzetta Make That Sandwich Contest with her untraditional take on a vegetarian sandwich. Initially wary of a sandwich with only one slice of bread, the judges were put at ease with their first \u2014 and second, and third \u2014 bites of Holbrook&amp;#039;s creation. In fact, Mezzetta president Jeff Mezzetta said that &amp;quot;the exquisite flavor combinations couldn&amp;#039;t be denied and with every bite the flavor gets better and better.&amp;quot; According to Holbrook, a sandwich can take you &amp;quot;mentally and emotionally to a happy place.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s a big reason why she chose figs as her sandwich centerpiece: When she and her husband married two years ago, they planted a fig tree together, giving figs a special place in her heart. Holbrook experimented extensively with figs and caramelized onions, but it wasn&amp;#039;t until she paired them with Mezzetta Calamata olive and honey spread that she felt confident that she had a winning sandwich on her hands.  The Third Annual Mezzetta Make That Sandwich Contest will be accepting entries from Memorial Day to Labor Day, 2010. For information on how to enter and for winning sandwich recipes, visit makethatsandwich.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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