{"id":1376,"date":"2009-07-30T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/30\/daly-wins-city-hall-cake-bake-throwdown\/"},"modified":"2017-05-28T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:52:37","slug":"daly-wins-city-hall-cake-bake-throwdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1376\/daly-wins-city-hall-cake-bake-throwdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Daly Wins City Hall Cake Bake Throwdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6543_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nSupervisor Chris Daly donned a tiara and a victor&#8217;s robe at San Francisco City Hall today<br \/>\nafter winning top honors in the 2009 Cake Bake Throwdown.<br \/>\n<strong>Photos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2009<\/p>\n<p>With emotions running high following a difficult budget cycle, San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly today was awarded top honors in the City Hall Cake Bake Throwdown of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I feel like somehow this was staged,&rdquo; Daly said as he was crowned with a glittering tiara and a regal black and red cape with the words &ldquo;#1 Cake Champ&rdquo; emblazoned on its back.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t that good,&rdquo; Daly added, referring to his Chocolate Pound Cake Devine that won the prestigious award, adjudged by Clerk of the Board Angela Calvillo and Slanted Door Executive Pastry Chef Chucky Dugo.\u00c2\u00a0 The entries were identified by number during the blind testing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6414_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nBlue Ribbon Winner: Supervisor Daly&#8217;s Chocolate Pound Cake Devine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--> Team Daly also won over Team Avalos with a score of 83 to 72 points for a range of mouth watering waistline-expanding creations.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts it was a perfect event to allay any residual hard feelings between Supervisors Avalos and Daly, who were at odds over how best to secure a balanced budget with a mayor who is known to have a sweet tooth for ignoring the will of the Board of Supervisors, and voters.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by Avalos aide Francis Hsieh, the event attracted legions of underfed supervisoral aides, underpaid members of City Hall press corps and Progressive electeds, including Supervisor David Campos who was instrumental in providing a $45 million <em>icing<\/em> insurance policy against potential mayoral midnight raids on the budget restorations pantry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to do this again,&#8221; Daly said as he cracked open a bottle of champagne in preparation for a long-overdue celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone get drunk unless you&#8217;re not over 21, or if you&#8217;re Gavin Newsom,&#8221; he joked.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if speeches were forthcoming from Avalos and Daly, Avalos said, &#8220;We love eachother. How&#8217;s that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6483_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nShowing some love: Supervisors Daly and Avalos.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6469_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nJudges Angela Calvillo and Chucky Dugo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6442_std.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nEvent organizer Francis Hsieh and Chris Daly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6431_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nAvalos aide Raquel Redondiez and daughter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6501_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sweetmelissa.typepad.com\/\">Sweet Melissa Griffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6496_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6425_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6444_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6477_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nJohn Avalos and wife, Karen Zapata.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bake_throwdown_090730\/_w2w6552_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all accounts it was a perfect event to allay any residual hard feelings between Supervisors Avalos and Daly who were at odds over how best to secure a balanced budget with a mayor who has a sweet tooth for ignoring the will of the Board, and voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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