Announcements

Congratulations to the winners of CholentFest IV!

Eydel Ladle Trophy:
Texas Hold 'Em Cholent by Ellen Neuborne and Leslie Landis
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card

People’s Choice Award:
Crocky IV by Choni Bellino
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card

Runner Up People’s Choice Award:
Honey, Spice, and Everything Fleish by David Neuhaus

Best Decoration:
Seven Species by Fern Penn
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card

Best Innovative Cholent:
Apple Bottom Crock; Boots with Da Fur by Cori "Cho Rida" Robinson & Keshet "Shawty" Bellino

We are grateful to everyone who made the event possible!

• Rabbi Gavriel Bellino for his creativity and love of labor in producing the event.
• Eli Szus for sponsoring prizes and supplies, producing the event and bedazzling the new trophy.
• All the chefs who shared their delicious and innovative cholents with us and decorated their tables.

  Crocky IV by Choni Bellino
  Sausage Party by Gavriel Bellino and Starring NY Brat Factory
  Canadian Bacon Chulent by Aliyah & Michael Gluckstadt
  North African Cholent by Maurice Goldstein & Marc Zegen
  Mexican Vegetarian Chili by Phyllis Liberman
  Ex-Tremé by Harris Marks
  Texas Hold 'Em Cholent by Ellen Neuborne & Leslie Landis
  Honey, Spice, and Everything Fleish by David Neuhaus
  Seven Species by Fern Penn
  Apple Bottom Crock; Boots wit da Fur by Cori "Cho Rida" Robinson
  & Ke$het “Sho’ty” Bellino
  Gluten Free Surprise by Chaim Shechtman
  Chimney by Eli Szus
  Experimental Cholent IV by David Waxman

• Our tasting judges: Joseph Bedros, Avi Beluca, Dr. Laura Van Metre Baum
• Our artistic judges: Meredith Spector and Ariel Matityahu
• Tali Zilberman and Henry Frank for handing out tickets.
• Dr. Leora Walter for engraving the new trophy.
• Sarah Kamaras for helping with the setup.
• The more than 150 cholent tasters/afficionados.

To see photos from before this event, click here.