The Pressured Cooker ; Both Judges and Contestants Feel the Heat at a Kosher Cook-Off

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My name was Judge 5.

The fate of 10 hopeful women rested in my hands and those of five other judges at the regional semifinal round of last Thursday's Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off at the Hilton Newark Airport.

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The Pressured Cooker ; Both Judges and Contestants Feel the Heat at a Kosher Cook-Off

Let me just say that Judge 5 didn't need to eat dinner that night.

Let me also say that we judges felt badly that only two contestants could go to the Feb. 1 finals in Manhattan.

Their challenge: Cook and plate an original dish, using at least one Manischewitz product and no more than eight ingredients, in under an hour.

Some 1,000 recipes were submitted to the contest; 10 were...

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