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Ozark Woman Appears on Food Network
Jan 5, 2009 | 1:15 PM
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An Ozark native makes it to the big time as she gains some national attention. Ozark High grad Emily Hobbs is cooking her way to the top and she hasn't even been to culinary school yet.

In this small kitchen, a big dream was born. "I was one of four finalists chosen out of 12,000 people," says Emily Hobbs, a contestant in the Ultimate Recipe Showdown. Emily Hobbs loves cooking and baking. So much so, she recently made it to a popular show on The Food Network.

"Ultimate Recipe Showdown is a competition of home cooks, and we compete against each other cooking different dishes," says Hobbs. She cooked a dish to tempt your taste-buds. "My signature dish is a baked butternut 4-cheese farfalle with sage, and my speed-round it's called a pumpernickel pastrami panini with rosemary eljue," says Hobbs.

This one-day chef started her training at a young age. "And started coming up with her own recipes when she was 12 years old, where she made a crust using tortilla chips," says Linda Hobbs, Emily's mother.

The creativity flowed as she got older. She would check out cookbooks from the library. Now, she thrives on using that creativity to make new recipes. "I'm inventing a recipe for chai snickerdoodle cookies," says Emily Hobbs.

"She just has this creative mind where she can pick out different things and put it together," says Linda Hobbs.

However, it does take practice. "I don't always get it right the first time," says Emily Hobbs.

"For someone this age to have made it on The Food Network is pretty amazing," says Linda Hobbs.

This 23 year-old is not stopping, and will continue pursuing her cooking dreams. "I'll get to New York it soon, to culinary school and then work for the Food Network, eventually," says Emily Hobbs.

If you want to catch up with her recipes and cooking, you can check out her website at http://www.visionsofsugarplum.com/http://www.vision
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BasehorLady read my blog view my photos
Jan 10, 2009 | 4:06 PM

The timing on this is bizarre... I turned on the food channel about 10 minutes ago, started surfing on here, came across this blog and I think that is the show and gal that just came on 4 minutes ago! Does Emily look about 10 years younger than she really is? If so, I must be watching the show now!
Searchingtoo read my blog view my photos
Jan 11, 2009 | 5:26 PM

I saw the show and she comes across as a hick. Too bad she didnt do a few videos of herself ahead of time and see that she slumps, slurs her words and generally speaks as though she has not had an education at all. Would have liked a better representative of the state of Missouri.
Emilyhobbs
Feb 6, 2009 | 5:41 PM

Oh. That's really nice. Thanks a lot.

Sorry. I was trying to win money for an education.
NYFoodBlogger
Feb 6, 2009 | 6:33 PM

Hey Searchingtoo...hard for something nice to say,

I saw the same show. You must not be thinking of the same person. The judges thought she did really well, especially considering her young age. They said culinary talent like that can't be taught. I would say that's pretty darn good.

BTW, I went to an Ivy League school, have a Master's degree from a European university and went to a first class cooking school, so I'm "kinda" educated. I didn't find any problem with her presentation, except for the fact that she made me extremely jealous of her gifts.
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www.thebesthangout.com Married to a wonderful man name Henry. Love our little lake home, on Cole Camp Creek, part of the Lake of the Ozarks, near Lincoln, MO. Made repairs. Remodeling, have been completed. Love watching FOX4. Just hard to see it in our area most the time. Love walking, and fishing.. And love our family and our three stay at home kids, two Schnauzers, Dusty and Phoebe and a pup named Max.

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