Winners of the 1st Annual Pesto Contesto

Saturday March 29th, 2008

Join the CFAC for an event that is packed full of competitive flavor with a side of local artistic creativity. The Pesto Contesto is sure to bring a taste of classy food, music and art into one extrodinarily unique experience. Entrants of the Pesto Contesto will compete for four different prizes including 1st through 3rd place and a people's choice award. For 1st, 2nd and 3rd places entrants will be judged by local community and business leaders with the people's choice award being voted by the open public. The first years event received support from Mayor Virg Bernero, The Firm and dozens of pesto taste testers from the local community. Over twenty different kinds of pesto were available for the public to try and vote for. For more information about competing in or tasting at the Pesto Contesto please contact Marco Broggio at (586) 344-7571

Chef Jason Hayes from Carrabas (left) Mayor Virg Bernero (center) and Marco Broggio (right) trying to determine which pesto will be crowned the champ.