I posted this on the same thread in the Recipes forum, but there was no answer. So, I'll try again here:
May I ask how the finalists were selected? All of these dishes look far too gourmet for my family's tastes. They seem so very different from the down-home-type recipes ToH used to publish. They do not seem truly representative of the real-world preferences of the majority of American families, and so I'm quite curious as to how they've arrived at the top of the list for the purposes of this contest.