Changes for The Piglet cookbook competition
January 29, 2020 by DarcieAfter ten years of running The Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks, Food52’s sometimes controversial cookbook competition, the site announced yesterday that they were making changes to the contest’s format. In past years, the contest has pitted cookbooks head-to-head in a bracket style competition (think of college basketball’s NCAA Sweet Sixteen competition). The photo below represents half of the competitors of last year’s field. Judges for each pairing were luminaries in the food business, writers, or celebrities who had a penchant for cooking.
These idiosyncracies sometimes ended in controversy as a result of mismatches in pairings (for example a baking book being judged alongside a meat-centric cookbook), the perceived cooking competency of the judges, and other clashes. After a few years of waning interest in The Piglet, Food52 has announced some major changes. They have taken to heart the comments of their readers, keeping the parts of the contest that seemed to resonate the most, such as the deep-dives into cookbooks and The Piglet Community Picks.
With these changes in mind, do you think you’ll be tuning in to the “new and improved” Piglet? Or do you feel the same kinds of problems will emerge even with a new format?
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