Bake Off

The city's white-tablecloth chefs are dreaming up inventive takes on the sandwich, too, inspired largely by the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival—a four-year-old event that awards best-of accolades to po'boys at its annual bake-off on Oak Street. ❋ Steve Garbarino (2011)

In our bake-off, we found Avamar to be a superior solution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everyone's favorite witch, Christine O'Donnell, sparked the catchphrase back in September telling her opponent, Mike Castle, "this is not a bake-off, get your man-pants on." ❋ Shannon Galpin (2010)

The rules bar analysts from appearing at "bake-off" meetings at which bankers pitch to handle IPO deals. ❋ Randall Smith (2012)

It held a bake-off in 1975 for what a safe car in 1985 might look like. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm not a baker but I had Pepperidge Farm bake-off rolls and a can of refried beans. ❋ Homesick Texan (2009)

The insurer is likely to pick four investment banks to lead the potential deal, one of the people said, but hasn't held an IPO "bake-off" to formally invite pitches. ❋ Serena Ng (2011)

Data Domain crushes the Quantum solution in a “bake-off”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some think Sharron Angle was inspired by Christine O'Donnell's more colorful turn of a phrase in early September when she warned her opponent in the Republican primary, Congressman Mike Castle, to stop using such "unmanly" tactics as filing a complaint against her with the Federal Election Commission and to get his "man-pants on" because the election wasn't "a bake-off." ❋ Mary Shannon Little (2010)

"World Food Day" and "World Food Prize" may sound like reasons to celebrate the culinary arts or feature contestants from TVs Top Chef series in a bake-off, but these commemorative occasions have little to do with cooking and everything to do with the humanitarian game changers who are working to find solutions to the world's hunger problem. ❋ Kristi York Wooten (2010)

"For a half-hour bake-off, he came all that way," Wei Christianson, Morgan Stanley's China CEO, said in an interview last month from her office near Financial Street in Beijing. ❋ Ryan McCarthy (2010)

The sisters transform cupcakes into the shape of a high-heeled shoe as a treat for Washington's annual Halloween Drag Race on "DC Cupcakes" TLC at 10, 10:30, and later, compete in a bake-off to decide on a cupcake flavor when they send a batch of 10,000 to the troops in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Such a bake-off is not unprecedented; last year, Tim Allen mulled several scripts developed with him in mind before he settled on the sitcom that would become Last Man Standing. ❋ Unknown (2012)