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Tonight’s western style dinner at Eddie Deen’s party center here in Dallas was the first event in which finalists, media, food industry executives and supermarket consumer affairs directors were all together. Food...

The 100 finalists have just finished cooking and submitted their recipes to the judges, who are sequestered away in a room carefully guarded by security. I spent four hours walking among them...

The excitement level here in Dallas is high as the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off begins. We assembled for breakfast at 6:15 in the Dallas Fairmont host hotel, where just about every one of...

The increasing number of women in the workplace in recent years has changed the world, says Harry Balzer, whose NPD Group tracks consumer behavior in eating, meal preparation, and cooking trends. The...

The 50 or so food writers here in Dallas for the Pillsbury BakeOff have attended a full day of seminars to help us with future stories as the 100 finalists arrive. Author...

Thats what Robb Walsh says. Author of the Tex-Mex Cookbook and The Texas Cowboy Cookbook, he spoke to the food editors gathered here in Dallas for our first Pillsbury BakeOff dinner. He’s...

Despite the grounding of hundreds of flights by Dallas based American Airlines, travel to this city for the Pillsbury Bake-Off went smoothly. My Continental flight was overbooked, probably as a result of...

I’m betting the Pillsbury Bake-Off folks are mighty anxious in the face of the many flights being canceled by American Airlines. More than a quarter-million people have been affected in just the...

In just a few days I’ll be headed to the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off in Dallas where I will watch as the 100 contest finalists prepare the dishes that won them the right...