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Now you can try the Cook-Off recipes at home by purchasing the souvenir recipe booklet and all proceeds go to charity. Recipe booklets can be found at participating Hampton Roads Miller’s Neighborhood Market locations. Join the fun!

And you can try them at participating restaurants for 10 days only September 14 – 23. Make your reservations today!

Miller’s Neighborhood Market and
Hampton Roads Magazine present the
2007 Convenience Store Cook Off

On May 14, 2007, five Hampton Roads chefs had up to $25 and 25 minutes in the Miller’s Neighborhood Market convenience store at Old Dominion University and were asked to prepare a world-class entrée and dessert.

And they did. Really.  

Miller’s Neighborhood Market picked up the chef’s in an SUV Limousine and transported them to our store near ODU. There the chefs shopped creatively for ingredients to create a gourmet entrée and dessert.

Their baskets were filled with a fascinating selection of products: fresh and canned food, Fun Buns Bakery items, packaged goods,and their favorite “junk” foods! We’re talking about all their guilty pleasures: chewing tobacco (say what???), Vienna sausage, potato chips, Slim Jims, Twinkies, Hershey bars, Chick O Sticks, and Spam to name a few.

Then back to the Tidewater Community College kitchen for the big Cook Off. The judges, onlookers, and staff were breathless with anticipation.

Chef Pete Evans, Zinc Brasserie, on camera with WVEC TV 13 Cameraman Jason Walsh	Local WVEC TV 13 celebrity, Joe Flanagan, interviews Chef Sydney Meers from Stove, the Restaurant.	Chef Don Averso (TCC Culinary Arts), Jeff Miller, President of Miller Oil, and some of the Cook Off staffers pose for the camera.

It was thrilling to watch these award-winning, highly regarded chefs “duke it out” for the top award of Best Overall Convenience Store entree and dessert.

Vintage Kitchen Chef Philip Craig Thomason hunkers down as the clock ticks off the minutes.	The Best Overall Award winner, Chef Pete Evans of Zinc Brasserie adds finishing touches to his Twinkie Trifle as Chef Huber races to finish.	Chad Martin, chef/owner of Create Bistro, cooks up a storm!

Chef Chad Martin of Create Bistro shows off his creative use of convenience store foods!	A serious moment for Chefs Pete Evans and Sydney Meers.	Chef Tomason's hands blur as he dices Slim Jims® - a key ingredient for the Short Stack.