Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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Tying One On [Taste The Best of Tampa Bay Apron Contest]

Posted Apr 1, 2009 by Jeff Houck

Updated Apr 1, 2009 at 03:23 PM

To promote their Taste the Best of Tampa Bay event Saturday, organizers at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center held their annual apron-decorating contest. (I was one of the lucky judges, along with 103.5 FM morning radio host Skip Mahaffey and Fox 13 news anchor Nerissa Prest.)

The winner this year by unanimous decision was Shelby McCarter‘s cool recipe-themed apron:

The recipe for a performing arts center in Tampa, according to McCarter includes the following ingredients:

Tied for second place were:

Giovanny Culi of Tampa (no, that’s not Giovanny. It’s a volunteer model.)

Annie Wade of Temple Terrace

Angel Butterfly of Tampa

To see all of the aprons, click here.