I hoped to talk to him about his sponsorship of the Gingerbread Outhouse Contest and it turns out that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as his involvement with the fair.
Mike has been King of the Kitchen - the man with the most points in the Kitchen Cupboard section - seven times. In years past he has entered 50-60 food items each year. This year, because he's busy, he entered "only" 20 items.
Here he holds up his first-place beef jerky, just one of several of his blue ribbon items within arm's reach of this spot.
Is he King of the Kitchen this year? I honestly don't remember. I couldn't begin to take notes fast enough to keep up with everything he was telling me.
Mike doesn't limit his fair participation to cooking. He does vegetables and sculpture and there are other things I can't remember. He's won King of the Fair (most points for a man in the entire fair) five or six times and expects to win again this year. But he won't be there on Sunday when the results are announced. Why? Because he'll be BMX racing in the 51-55 age bracket in Eugene that day.
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