Barnes & Noble Announces National My Cookie Story Contest Winner Jessica McGehee
12 February 2019 - 12:30AM
Business Wire
McGehee’s Story and Cookie Were Chosen from
More Than 1,000 Submissions by Barnes & Noble and a Panel of
Renowned Chefs and Bakers
McGehee Awarded $5,000 Check at a Special
Awards Ceremony, and Her Cookie Will Be Sold at Barnes & Noble
Cafés During the 2019 Holiday Season
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s
largest retail bookseller, today announced that military family
wife and mother Jessica McGehee won the national My Cookie Story
Contest held last December for her “Taste of Home Cookie Bar,” a
cookie representing all the places her family has lived over the
years. As the winner, McGehee will have a version of her cookie
sold as part of the 2019 Barnes & Noble Café Holiday Menu, and
was presented with a check for $5,000 on Saturday, February 9, at
the Barnes & Noble Eastlake in Chula Vista, California.
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Barnes & Noble My Cookie Story
Contest winner Jessica McGehee receives her $5,000 check from Neil
Strong, VP of Cafe Operations for Barnes & Noble, and Kathy
Ennesser, Store Manager of Barnes & Noble in Chula Vista.
Credit: Paige Powell, Creative Paige Photography.
“We received many great stories and recipes from around the
country telling us about the special memories and moments that come
from baking,” said Neil Strong, Vice President of Café Operations
for Barnes & Noble. “But Jessica’s McGehee’s submission of a
cookie with ingredients representing the different places her
family has lived due to her husband’s job in the military both
moved us for its story, as well as impressed us for its baking
creativity.”
During a special event on Saturday, February 9, Strong awarded
McGehee her prize, and samples of her award-winning cookie were
made available by Sweet Street. Sweet Street will also bake a
version of McGehee’s cookie to be sold at Barnes & Noble Cafés
next holiday season. McGehee’s award-winning recipe includes a
delicious combination of marshmallows, chocolate chips, and white
chocolate, as well as garnish including caramel sauce and crisp
bacon, all evoking memories of places her family has lived.
McGehee’s story and recipe can be seen at BN.com/MyCookieStory.
“This ‘Taste of Home Cookie Bar’ represents the four states my
7-year-old daughter has lived in as part of a military family, from
the marshmallows representing our first snow in North Carolina, to
the course bits of sugar on top representing the sandy deserts of
Arizona,” McGehee said. “I’m so happy that Barnes & Noble and
the judges recognized our story and this recipe for its cookie
contest. I can’t wait for customers around the country to try the
cookie over the holidays and hopefully be reminded of the service
and sacrifice of military families around the country.”
Barnes & Noble’s My Cookie Story Contest gave customers a
chance to share their favorite cookie stories and recipes with
Barnes & Noble and a panel of nationally-renowned chefs and
bakers. Submissions were accepted online and in stores from
December 4 through December 17, 2018. Barnes & Noble’s panel of
nationally-renowned chefs and bakers included:
- Jason Arthur, Barnes & Noble Café
Buyer, and a contestant on ABC’s The Great American Baking Show:
Holiday Edition.
- Rose Levy Beranbaum, American baker and
cookbook author, including Rose’s Baking Basics: 100 Essential
Recipes, with More Than 600 Step-by-Step Photos.
- Deb Perelman, Founder of Smitten
Kitchen and cookbook author, including Smitten Kitchen Every Day:
Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites.
- Sandy Solmon, Founder of Sweet
Street.
- Katie Workman, cookbook author of The
Mom 100: Recipes, Stories, and Real-Cook Solutions.
Customers can join the conversation about the My Cookie Story
Contest on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat (bnsnaps) and
Facebook, using the hashtags, #MyCookieStory and
#SweetStreetOMG.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the nation’s largest
retail bookseller, and a leading retailer of content, digital media
and educational products. The Company operates 630 Barnes &
Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web’s premier
e-commerce sites, BN.com (http://www.bn.com/). The Nook Digital
business offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and eReaders and
an expansive collection of digital reading and entertainment
content through the NOOK Store®. The NOOK Store
(http://www.nook.com/) features digital books, periodicals and
comics, and offers the ability to enjoy content across a wide array
of popular devices through Free NOOK Reading Apps™ available for
Android™, iOS® and Windows®.
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About Sweet Street
Sweet Street is the leading innovator in the dessert industry.
The Company is owned and operated by Sandy Solmon and headquartered
in Reading, Pennsylvania, where Sandy is also the head of research
and development, leading a team of like-minded, passionate
researchers and recipe developers who now bake for restaurants in
over 60 countries, on every continent. Visit them at:
https://www.sweetstreet.com/.
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Mary Ellen KeatingSenior Vice PresidentCorporate
CommunicationsBarnes & Noble, Inc.(212)
633-3323mkeating@bn.comAlex OrtolaniDirectorCorporate
CommunicationsBarnes & Noble, Inc.(212)
633-3379aortolani@bn.com
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