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It’s L.A. County Fair Time
It’s time for the Los Angeles County Fair and it’s County Fair Season all across the country.
Good luck to all the competitors!
What did you enter? Is your recipe a family treasure or from a cookbook?
Something from the County Fair Cookbook, perhaps?
I love the Fair, and it’s fun to bring home Ribbons, Plates, and souvenirs.
Let me know how you did. A Blue Ribbon perhaps?
Email a photo to my Readers’ Gallery.
Buona fortuna!!
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The LA County Fair
Home Arts Building c. 1980
“Calling all chefs, bakers, and food lovers… join your fellow culinary artists in one of the many contests and competitions offered this year at the L.A. County Fair!” That’s what it says on the L.A. County Fair website Culinary Styles Contests and Competitions page. I read the article about the Fair in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times and the memories came flooding back. Years ago I was an avid L.A. County Fair Home Arts competitor with lots of laughs, photographs and Winner’s Ribbons of all stripe to show for it. I entered jams, jellies, preserves, candy, breads, specialty bread… you name it. I even entered a Cheesecake Contest. And who could forget the Baker’s Chocolate Brownie Contest? It was a ton of fun. Back in the day the food contests were held under the auspices of the Home Arts Section. In early Spring all contestants registered by mail with the Home Arts Division to enter the contests of their choosing, and the reward far outweighed the minimal entry fee. While some contests are judged live at the Fair, most are judged prior to the Opening Day. Contestants deliver their entries to the Pomona Fairplex several weeks prior to the opening of the Fair for closed judging. Let me tell you, it is hard to leave those babies and wonder what folks will think of them. I always wanted to tell the ladies something about them. I always wondered on the drive home what would become of my creations. Opening Day arrived, and it was time to go.