Competitor Profile
Debbie Reid
HEAD COOK: Debbie Reid
COMPETITION: World Recipe Championship
QUALIFYING EVENT: WFC Online Recipe Contest
By day, you can find me working behind a desk in the Administrative Division of a Parks and Recreation Department at a local municipality. By night and weekend, you will find me in the kitchen or outside at the grill, creating and testing new recipes.I have been entering cooking and recipe contests for about five years and am amazed at the wonderful opportunities it has afforded me. I have been published in numerous magazines and cookbooks, participated in the Tillamook Macaroni and Cheese Cook-off, Aetna Healthy Food Fight, Beringer’s Great Steak Challenge, Reser‘s Potato Salad Contest, 2012 and 2013 World Food Championship, New England Soup Cookoff, Riunite Chili Challenge and Pillsbury Bake-off. I have been extremely fortunate to have won The USA Pears Contest; The Chew/Bush’s Grillin’ Beans Grilling Contest; Fage Total Plain Kitchen Contest; St. Francis Grilled Cheese Contest; Ready, Set, Cook Hidden Valley Ranch Contest; Buitoni Supper Star Contest; Premio/Party’tizers Super Bowl Dip Contest; Spicy Holiday Heat Contest; NatureSweet Glorys Recipe Contest and Kellogg’s Eggo Your Way Contest.
From these contests I have been able to do things I would never have dreamed I would do. I have appeared on The Chew and cooked with Michael Symon; had a first class trip to NYC for a hands-on cooking demo/meet and greet with Bobby Flay; trips to Oregon Wine Country and Sonoma Valley and some nice cash prizes.
One of the best things I have come away with is all the new friends I have made along the way, and I can’t wait to see so many of them in Vegas!