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And the winners of the inaugural VillageFest pie baking contest are…

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Dory Simons’ entry, which earns an honorable mention from us for its aesthetic excellence, though it didn’t place in the final results (which shows you just how tough the competition was).

As you all are no doubt aware, there is nothing sweeter than the freedom we celebrate on the Fourth of July. But pie is a close second.

Which is why yesterday’s VillageFest celebration was especially sweet for shawneemissionpost.com’s very own Julia Westhoff, who had the honor of judging the inaugural Prairie Village Pie Baking Contest along with Le Fou Frog pastry chef Carter Holton. If you happened to see the 30-plus entries at the Harmon Park pavilion before they were sliced up, you know that there were some fine looking pies in the running.

Alas, only a handful could take home bragging rights. And they are:

Grand Prize: Joe Cristofani’s Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Fruit Category
1st Place: Sara Thompson*
2nd Place: Charlotte Rosen
3rd Place: Polly Bilski

Nut/Other Category
1st Place: Melissa Geffert
2nd Place: Carol Logan
3rd Place: Lisa Keeter

Youth Category (There were only three entries so they only awarded first place.)
1st Place: Julia Caldwell

*Okay…so, full disclosure: Sara is Jay’s aunt. Which of course brings up the question of whether there was any favoritism in the judging process. Rest assured there was not: Julia didn’t know Sara was entering a pie and all of the entries were identified by a number, not a name. But the results aren’t surprising. She bakes a really, really mean pie.

Julia Westhoff and Carter Holton performing the onerous task of judging pies at VillageFest 2013.

About the author

Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, where he earned the Calder Pickett Award. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

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