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  • MARIA UMINSKI/Gloucester Daily Times Julie Ann Geary, of Classic Cooks, explains her dish to the hungry crowd, at the fourth-annual Cape Ann Farmer's Market Seafood Throwdown. Both teams had to incorporate Ocean Perch into their dishes, which was the mystery fish ingredient. MARIA UMINSKI/Gloucester Daily Times

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  • MARIA UMINSKI/Gloucester Daily Times. Linda Sands of Sugar Magnolia's plates her dish during the fourth-annual Cape Ann Farmer's Market Seafood Throwdown. The both teams had to incorporate Ocean Perch into their dishes, which was the mystery ingredient.

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  • Julie Ann Geary, of Classic Cooks, celebrates with her teammate Travis Grandin after defeating Linda Sands, second from left, and Sandro Carvalho of Sugar Magnolias, keeping her title as Seafood Throwdown Champion at the Fourth-Annual Cape Ann Farmer's Market Seafood Throwdown. MARIA UMINSKI/Gloucester Daily Times. Julie Ann Geary, of Classic Cooks, celebrates with her teammate Travis Grandin after defeating Linda Sands, second from left, and Sandro Carvalho of Sugar Magnolias, keeping her title as Seafood Throwdown Champion at the Fourth-Annual Cape Ann Farmer's Market Seafood Throwdown.

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August 24, 2012

A 'Classic' seafood throwdown

By Times Staff Gloucester Daily Times

Classic Cooks Catering came away the winner in Thursday’s popular Seafood Throwdown at the Cape Ann Farmers Market.

But the larger winners included groups like the sponsoring North Atlantic Marine Alliance, the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association and its Cape Ann Fresh Catch program, all of whom got to raise awareness of the throwdown’s real message — that fresh, locally caught seafood is healthy, sustainable and that independent local fishermen have and deserve a place at the seafood harvesting table.

The throwdown, an annual feature of the farmers market held each Thursday at Stage Fort Park, features local chefs facing off using a sustainable fish selected by NAMA and then adding elements bought from that day’s farmers market.

Thursday, judges chose Classic Cooks’ dish created with the chosen fish, Ocean Perch, over Sugar Magnolia’s. Sugar Mags, however, can take solace in having won throwdowns five times in the past.

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