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Current Entry: Chili Cookoff
This Winter Camp XIV meal seemed, at the time, to be the final death blow to the idea of competitive cooking at Winter Camp. Three teams were formed and quested to create a pot of chili using the full resources of the Winter Camp kitchen. While two teams produced passable batches, the squad led by Dave Milon and Dave Woods cooked up a creation using samples from all 24 jars in the Winter Camp spice rack. The results proved most distasteful; one anonymous evaluator summed up the dish by noting "Just because spices exist, you don't have to use them all." Dave Milon himself perhaps described the quality best in his Winter Camp News review when he judged it "not suitable for [Rand] stew". Fourteen years later, the meal was judged safe to return, and the results were far more palatable. Competitive cooking returned with the Ark Dinner at Winter Camp XXVI.