I Survived (and Loved) the Cornbread Cook-Off - No. 340

And brought home a dazzling fresh mango chutney recipe perfect for just about anything

My Hot Water Corn Cakes have just three ingredients. So good. So easy.

WHAT COMES WITH FOUR DECADES of food writing is the occasional request to judge a cooking contest. I’ve judged The Pillsbury Bake-Off, a massive barbecue competition along the Mississippi River, several chicken cooking contests in the United States and one in Tokyo, plus a dozen or mo…