Higher Ground was packed on Wednesday night with desserts, foodies and drag queens. Another Vermont Restaurant Week, another Sweet Start Smackdown to kick it off.
Almost 400 people sampled treats from 10 pastry chefs handpicked by Seven Days‘ food team. Fifty percent of the votes came from the judges: Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s; Gretel-Ann Fischer, runner-up on this year’s season of TLC’s pastry-competition show, “Next Great Baker”; and local drag legend Amber LeMay. The rest came from guests, each of whom were given three gold tokens with which to cast their votes. (Guests could buy more booty to stack the deck — the proceeds went to the Vermont Foodbank.)
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