Champ Products of Northbrook has trained its ice cream bar to bea winner. The premium dessert on a stick recently knocked outnational competition to capture first prize in the dairy category ofthe 1990 New Retail Products Contest sponsored by Gorman Publishing'sNew Product News. The frozen treats contain a core of premiumvanilla ice cream enrobed with creamy fudge, roasted peanuts andeither a milk or dark chocolate coating. Three-packs sell for $2.89in Jewel Food Stores, Eagle supermarkets and independent grocers.Single servings sell for $1.39 each in White Hen Pantries, 7-Elevensand other convenience markets.
UNCONTESTED: Culinary contestant extraordinaire Debbie Vanni ofLibertyville will share the secrets of her success during a freeprogram at 7:15 Wednesday at the Deerfield Public Library, 920Waukegan Rd. Among her many contest triumphs, Vanni competed inFebruary as a finalist at the 34th Pillsbury Bake-off in Phoenix.The program is free and will include samples of Vanni's dishes. Toregister call (708) 945-3311.
FIBER BOARD: A comprehensive chart listing fiber in brand-nameand generic foods is available from the Center for Science in thePublic Interest, a nonprofit nutrition and health advocacy group.Fiber, a largely indigestible substance found only in plant foodssuch as vegetables, fruits, grains and legumes, is recommended byhealth experts for its contribution to good health. The FiberScoreboard (18-by-24-inches) is available be sending $4.95 ($9.95 forlaminated chart): to CSPI-Fiber Scoreboard, 1501 16th St., NW,Washington, DC 20036.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Nonprofit organizations that produced afund-raising cookbook in 1989 or 1990 are invited to submit theirworks for consideration in the Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards, anew national cookbook recognition program sponsored by the McIlhennyCompany of Avery Island, La. Awards will be bestowed every other yearto the outstanding community cookbooks in six regional and threenational categories. Winners will receive contributions to theirdesignated charities, plaques for their organizations andcertificates for committee members who worked on the books. Theentries will be judged by Ladies Home Journal food editor Jan TurnerHazard and a panel of food experts. November 1 is the deadline forentries. For an entry form and contest rules write to TabascoCommunity Cookbook Awards, Hunter MacKenzie Cooper, 41 Madison Ave.,New York, N.Y. 10010.
If you have news of new products, classes or other food eventsopen to the public, send the information at least two weeks inadvance to Bits and Pieces, Chicago Sun-Times Food Department, 401 N.Wabash, Chicago 60611.
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