2021 Food Olympics Recap

 We started the Food Olympics in August with a tribute to Tokyo, host of the actual Olympics, with a Japanese snack box. Most of the items in the box I thought were awful. After this we continued with 9 different events including Cookies, Snacks, Frozen Appetizers, Homemade meals, Sodas, cheese, take out, Breakfast/dessert sweets and finished with an international snack box.  Some of the highlights of the 9 events were

I found out I like wafer cookies especially the Loacker Quadratini Lemon Wafers from Italy 

and the Meiji Hello Panda Chocolate Cookies from Japan      

    

 I really enjoyed the Sabine’s Collections Garlic, Chives and Parsley Baguette Crisps from Canada

 

·         I enjoyed eating the Frozen Appetizers including the South Korean Bibigo beef and vegetable mandu     and the Whole Foods Greek Spanakopita   

 

·        It was fun to try to cook and eat foreign meals including Bulgogi, Carnitas and Swedish meatballs

 

·        The cheese event was really fun but hard to judge. I tried Aged Manchego from Spain and Jarlsberg from Norway for the first time and really enjoyed them.

 

·      The whole family enjoyed Nordy's BBQ. I also enjoyed getting takeout from local restaurants including chicken pad Thai from Chili Thai, kung pao chicken from Asian pearl bistro and the al pastor burrito from Mi Tierra

 

·        We really enjoyed the Cannoli and cherry turnovers both from Whole Foods

 

·        The international snack box event was a lot of fun and a little different than others since I didn’t know what was in the box.  We enjoyed the Teashop Bourbon Creams from the U.K. 

      and the Dolcetto Petites Cookies and Cream Wafer Bites from Indonesia             

 

Here is the final 2021 Food Olympics medal count

Medal count
	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
US	3	2	1	6
Italy	2		1	3
Mexico	1	1	1	3
South Korea	2			2
Canada	1	1		2
Spain			2	2
Indonesia	1			1
Norway	1			1
Switzerland		1		1
Thailand		1		1
UK		1		1
Belgium			1	1
China			1	1
Greece			1	1
Ireland			1	1
Japan			1	1
Sweden			1	1
	11	7	11	29

The 2021 Food Olympics was a very successful and a very fun event!  I was able to eat lots of food and try new foods from all over the world.  We had foods from or representing more than 30 different countries! Most of these were very good, but some were not so good.  This was so much fun, and I was glad I could do something that corresponded with the actual Olympics.  I hope you enjoyed reading and following along.