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Article: Sandwich scores at Bake-Off; 'Breadwinner': The top prize goes to a food that had 'star quality'
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 20, 2002
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This year's Pillsbury Bake-Off winner provided a first.It's
the first time in the 53-year history of the acclaimed contest that
the winning entry was a sandwich.
The Earl of Sandwich would be proud of the accountant from
Nashville, Tenn. who created the "breadwinner."
Denise Yennie had what judges called "star quality." Her Chicken
Florentine Panini - a homemade version of an Italian restaurant
staple - knocked out the competition for the $1 million grand prize.
Denise, a business consultant with two teenage children, was
shocked to learn she had won.
"O my God, I am so excited," she said in a press release. "My kids
are home from school on a snow day and they're watching."
She also ...