Watch out Food Network stars, you’ve got some tough new competition! America’s newest culinary kid genius has been crowned. Bonney Lake, Wash. resident, 9-year-old Emma Potts has created America’s next gourmet burger – the “Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger.” Potts’ burger recipe was chosen by a panel of judges including Robin Miller, host of the Food Network “Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller.”
During the Red Robin Kids’ Cook-Off Championship in Denver, Colo. today against nine other kid finalists, whose burger recipes were selected from more than 11,000 kids ages six to 12 across the U.S., Potts’ “Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger” was selected as the Red Robin “Kids’ Cook-Off” Grand-Prize Winner. As the grand-prize winner, Potts’ “Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger,” made with a burger patty topped with honey, ripe red tomato, mayonnaise, bacon, cayenne pepper, butter leaf lettuce and havarti cheese, will be sold in all U.S. Red Robin® restaurants in summer 2010 to benefit the child safety efforts of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC). Fifty-cents of every “Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger” sold will go to support NCMEC’s child safety initiatives.
“It was a thrill to be part of the judging panel for the Red Robin ‘Kids’ Cook-Off’ Championship and to celebrate and encourage kids’ culinary creativity while also supporting child safety efforts,” said Food Network host, Robin Miller. “Working for the Food Network has allowed me to try many creative ingredients, and the ‘Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger’ was every bit as delicious as the food I’ve tried from professional chefs.”