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Pudding festival nearly doubles its entries

Recorder/Geoff Bluh
Judges for the Pudding Hollow Pudding Festival tasted 27 puddings entered into the contest at the Charlemont Federated Church on Saturday. From left are Edie Clark, writer for Yankee magazine, Kathleen Wall, Colonial Foodways manager for Plimoth Plantation, and Clark's friend, Mimi Carruthers of Amherst.

[ Originally published on: Monday, November 02, 2009 ]

CHARLEMONT  The proof of the pudding may be in the eating, but on Saturday, it was in Charlemont.

Twenty-seven cooks from as far away as Maryland submitted their puddings, all in the hopes of being designated Pudding Head and taking top honors at this years Pudding Hollow Pudding Festival.

Judges awarded Paula Zindler, of Cummington, the Pudding Head award for best pudding and the award for best pumpkin pudding.

Zindler, originally from Manhattan, has won awards for her cakes at the Cummington, Three County and Franklin County fairs but this is her first foray into competitive pudding making.

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