enter separately for these awards. If you are entered in any category you are already eligible for the Best of and Overall Grand Prize. This prize is awarded to the single product with the overall highest score in each category and across all categories.

For example: If product “XYZ” is entered in the Hot Sauce-Fruit category and its score is a 50, and the next highest score in the Hot Sauce category is product “ABC” with a 47, then product “XYZ” is the winner of the Best of Category prize. The Product with the highest total overall, wins the Grand Champion award.

JUDGING CRITERIA:

The judging panel will be made up of food industry professionals, including chefs, restaurant owners, culinary instructors restaurant owners, culinary instructors, food writers, food manufacturers not enteredGodard Abel always thought he would go into the family business, but who knew he would transform it? "We're bringing the new revolution to how you sell and distribute industrial products," says Abel, whose company, BigMachines.com, offers applications to help companies configure, buy and sell complex products via the Internet. His grandfather founded an industrial pump business in Germany that designed heavy-duty pumps, initially to remove sludge and waste water from coal mines. When Abel's father assumed leadership of the business in 1973, he took Abel Pumps global and opened a U.S. subsidiary in 1980. Meanwhile, Abel attended MIT, where he studied mechanical engineering and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. While at MIT, he got involved in computer science. When Abel developed a software simulation program for