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POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 01, 2008
Kristine Snyder's Hawaii Da Kine Burgers won her a national title Saturday - and the $50,000 grand prize in Sutter Home's Build a Better Burger contest.
Snyder, a harpist from Kihei, Maui, is the state's most successful recipe champion, having won the National Chicken Cooking Contest, and placed in the Pillsbury Bake-Off and the National Beef Cook-Off since she started entering national contests in 2000. Last year she won the Food Network's "Ultimate Recipe Showdown" and a $25,000 prize.
She also won the Better Burger contest in 2001, when the prize was $20,000. This year's win, over nine other finalists in a grill-off held in Napa Valley, Calif., is her biggest.
Snyder said she entered a similar recipe last year, but it didn't place. "I believed in it and I kept revising it."
Almost immediately after winning, Snyder was hustled onto a plane for New York, where she appeared on NBC's "Today Show" Monday. She prepared her burgers for hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford.
"It was cool. They did my hair ... It was so official. Not like doing 'Hawaii's Kitchen.'"
Her winnings actually totaled $52,500, as Snyder's burgers also took the People's Choice prize. She says she plans to buy a new grill and, as cliched as it sounds, she wants to go to Disney World.
Kristine Snyder's Hawaii Da Kine Burgers won her a national title Saturday - and the $50,000 grand prize in Sutter Home's Build a Better Burger contest.
Snyder, a harpist from Kihei, Maui, is the state's most successful recipe champion, having won the National Chicken Cooking Contest, and placed in the Pillsbury Bake-Off and the National Beef Cook-Off since she started entering national contests in 2000. Last year she won the Food Network's "Ultimate Recipe Showdown" and a $25,000 prize.
She also won the Better Burger contest in 2001, when the prize was $20,000. This year's win, over nine other finalists in a grill-off held in Napa Valley, Calif., is her biggest.
Snyder said she entered a similar recipe last year, but it didn't place. "I believed in it and I kept revising it."
Almost immediately after winning, Snyder was hustled onto a plane for New York, where she appeared on NBC's "Today Show" Monday. She prepared her burgers for hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford.
"It was cool. They did my hair ... It was so official. Not like doing 'Hawaii's Kitchen.'"
Her winnings actually totaled $52,500, as Snyder's burgers also took the People's Choice prize. She says she plans to buy a new grill and, as cliched as it sounds, she wants to go to Disney World.
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