I’ve been honored to help judge a variety of cooking and bartending contests throughout my career, speak on panels, and occassionally even mentor students. Here are some recent examples:

Click here to download my Tasting Panel story on Iron Mixologist…
More about the Hussong’s Hot Salsa Contest below…

Sometimes you have to take a stand. Sometimes you have to accept a difficult task. The kind of task that just can’t be left to amateurs. Sometimes, you have to judge a hot salsa contest. And that sometime, for me, came on February 15.