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After intense deliberation, the National Honey Board (NHB) named Culinary Institute of America (CIA) Hyde Park student, Perry Xu Cao, the Grand Prize winner of the inaugural “Sweet 16 Honey Recipe Challenge.”  Cao was awarded the $5,000 Grand Prize Scholarship for his Goat Cheese Tempura with Honey Dipping Sauces, following a morning of fierce but friendly competition at the Aug. 20 Sweet 16 Honey Recipe Challenge’s “Final Four” cook-off event at CIA Greystone in St. Helena, Calif.

Cao’s winning recipe was a simple yet elegant appetizer featuring three varietals of honey infused with aromatics to create mouthwatering sauces, providing a delicious balance to the crispy, citrus-laced and savory goat cheese tempura.

For the winning recipe, Goat Cheese Tempura with Honey Dipping Sauces go to:

http://www.honey.com/images/downloads/goat_cheese_tempura_with_honey_dipping_sauces.pdf