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The Holiday Food Experiment | The Bell House

'Tis the season for a jolly throwdown filled with gingerbread empanadas and Kwanzaa cakes

Food Experiment hosts Nick Suarez and Theo Peck

Judges Peter Hoffman (and daughter!), Garret Oliver and Andrew Knowlton

First place, Judges' Award: Alyssa Lees' gingerbread pork empanadas

Gingerbread pork empanadas with cranberry salsa, and egg nog ice cream for dessert

Second place, Judges' Award:Jeffrey Olson's 'Thanksgiving b'stilla'

Thanksgiving b'stillas

Third place, Judges's Award: Roopa Marcello's Frosty's Flipped Fruitcake

Frosty's Flipped Fruitcake: gingerbread cake with brandied fruit compote, bourbon brown sugar buttercream, maple candied pecan

First place, Audience Award: Righteous Burn's 'Righteous Sau'

Righteous Sau: slow-cooked pernil, maple roasted butternut squash, home-pickled jalapenos with chips

Second place, Audience Award: Erin Erinson's 'God Jul Goat Kjottkaker'

'God Jul Goat Kjottkaker': goat meatballs with dilled brunost cream, aquavit-mashed roots, lingonberry jam, gingered rye crumble

Third place, Audience Award: Cast Iron Castaways' 'Not Your Mama's Pumpkin Pie'

'Not Your Mama's Pumpkin Pie' 2-ways: with bacon, or pecans and almonds, both with bourbon and maple-glazed apples

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