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SOUP OFF 2015 RESULTS SUMMARY

SOUP OFF 2015 BEST IN SHOW:


1st Place: Lori Dodds - Keep Calm & Curry On (Chicken Curry)
2nd Place: Terre & Rich Mehlhaf - Chili My Deer (Venison chilli)
3rd Place: Pam & Brendan Fox - Beaver Believer (Duck and Andouille
Gumbo)
4th Place: Beth & Lee Larsen - Liquid Gold (Asiago Bisque)
5th Place: Mida McKenrick - Hard out there for a Shrimp (Coconut Thai)
6th Place: Erin Dooher & Sean Smith - Jumbly Wumbly (Chicken Curry)
SOUP OFF 2015 CATEGORY WINNERS:
Freaky gourd award: Pumpkin Bumpkin Black Bean Chili (Haley Ohms &
Justin Braaten)
Best presentation: Chili My Deer (was served with cornbread, hot sauce, cheese, and beer pairing (Oculto:
beer aged on tequila barrel staves: Terre & Rich Mehlhaf)
Highest taste to appearance ratio: Keep Calm and Curry On (Lori Dodds)
Most pure to the idea of what soup is: Mother Clucking Chicken and Dumpling (Jess Keune & Eric)
Most pure to the idea of what soup is - Honorable mention: Oysterville Chowder (clam chowder by Briita
Orwick)
Best vegetarian/vegan: Origin of Purity (Butternut Squash Soup by Dave Takush)
Best vegan - Honorable mention: Split Pea Supreme (Big Don)
Punniest name: Get jjigae with it (Korean style soybean paste soup by Kim Dodds)
Punniest name - Honorable mention: Hard Out There for a Shrimp by Mida McKenrick)
Best texture: Mother Clucking Chicken and Dumpling (Jess Keune & Eric)
Best texture honorable mention: Swimming with Shrooms (Chantrelle and Salmon Chowder by Seth Ayotte
and Phil Lorenz)
Best apron: Tie between Mida (its authentic and old) and Briita
Best non-soup: Pumpkin Souper Bread (Pumpkin bread served in a crock pot by Brent Carmer)
Best soup - honorable mention: your mom
Best New-American: Beaver Believer Gumbo (Brendan Fox & Pam Allen)
Best dairy free: Hard out there for a shrimp / jumbly mumbly
WRITE IN CATEGORY WINNERS, COMMENTS and MORE HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Best in show - Honorable mention: White Girl Pasole (By Laura Moshofsky)
Best New American - Honorable mention: White Girl Pasole (By Laura Moshofsky)
Most epic harvest: Swimming with Shrooms (Seth Ayotte & Phil Lorenz for chantrelles picked same day and
fresh salmon)
Best garnish: Liquid Gold (Beth Larsen; liquid gold melted my face off, was served with fried cheese crackers
and bacon)
Healthiest soup: Split Pea Supreme (by Alison Big Don Doniger)
Most undocumented/off the grid soup: Unnamed soup in unplugged crock pot (by Dan Coyle, name later
ascertained to be Beef Boy)
Only use of cauliflower - honorable mention: Beef Boy (Dan Coyle)
Most politically endorsed soup: Holy Mole (endorsed by the pope and Bernie Sanders, soup by Dennis and
Allison Feeney)
Feeling the most Bern (and spiciest soup): Holy Mole (Dennis & Allison Feeney)

Best in show - honorable mention: Its Got Bacon (Potato, blue cheese and bacon soup by Diana and Ryan
Owen)
Farthest traveling soup taster: Blueberry Gene (From Alaska)
Best use of Bacon: Its Got Bacon (Diana & Owen Ryan)
Pam Allen: honorable mention for freaky gourd award and best non soup
Dankest soup: Steezy Cheese (Broccoli cheddar by Scott Allen)
Sketchiest back burner soup: Steezy Cheese (Scott Allen)

SOUP OFF 2015 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:


Soup Off co-founders and executive committee - Beth Larsen and Pam Allen
Host - Scott Allen
Prize committee - Erin Dooher and Sean Smith
Vote counters: Alison Doniger, Brent Carmer, Kim Dodds (also created ballot and ballot box)
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