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  • Homemade crabmeat cheesecake with creamy topping on black cake pan
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    Crabmeat Cheesecake, Phyllis E. Murphy

    ByKara November 26, 2024April 5, 2026

    There are those for whom a recipe contest is a footnote. Many contestants walk off the experience with a fun story and perhaps a triumph, and their names enshrined into a token cookbook. For others, however, the competition is a way of life. These food mavens work the circuit of county fairs, recipe contests and…

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  • Broiled chicken leg with mashed potatoes and broccoli on white plate, vintage 1950s recipe
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    Broiled Chicken Deluxe, Edna Karlik

    ByKara January 19, 2021April 5, 2026

    Mrs. Ronie Venables made honorable-mention in the first annual “National Chicken Cooking Contest” at the Delmarva Chicken Festival in 1949. Were she able to prepare her fried chicken on a wood-burning stove, she told a Universal Press reporter, she could have beaten out Mrs. A.L. Karlik for first place. The Press reporter contrasted the two…

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