COMPETITOR

Sandi Sheppard

HEAD COOK: Sandi Sheppard

COMPETITION: World Open Chili Championship

It’s #WFC2024, and I’m competing in the Soup Category for my 10th year competing at #WorldFoodChampionships! I began competing in both online contests and cook off competitions in 2010 after a long career as the Advertising, Marketing and PR Director for Oklahoma’s first Pari-Mutuel Race Track, then switching to become the Art Director for a Sign Company, designing everything from yard signs to Billboards and Vehicle Wraps. After my first National Cook Off competition in 2010, I discovered that I was very competitive in the kitchen arena have never looked back after that! I’ve been honored to place in the WFC Top 10 categories 4 times, for World Recipe in 2014 and placed 2nd-In-The-World in WFC Burger category in 2015. I won the WFC Taste of America Oklahoma state division in 2018, finishing 8th-In-The-World in Chili, and 2nd again in WFC Burger 2021 by a very narrow margin to winning! My World Food Championships journey began in 2013 winning the WFC qualifier “OKC Bull Burger Battle” for both Pros and home cooks, and a Bull Outdoor sponsorship to the World Food Championship in Vegas and bragging rights as the 1st female home cook to win a Bull Burger Battle competition! When the WFC 2020 Cook Off was canceled, WFC offered a Virtual Online Competition and I added another Win to my belt as the winner of the 2020 WFC Virtual Food Sport Brunch Category Competition with my CHEESY BRICK POUTINE with RED EYE SAUSAGE GRAVY & CHEESY GREEN CHILI SCRAMBLED EGGS & MEXICAN CREMA-COFFEE AIOLI and a Bonus Cattle Dog Cocktail. I've won many other cooking competitions over the years, including the National Strut Your Duck Contest in both 2013 and 2015, and being winner, placing and/or finalist in many other contests since 2010 and have won some fabulous prizes and cash awards along the way. I feel honored and proud to be included in this huge arena of #FoodChamps competing with both Home Cooks and Pro Chefs from all over the World!