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Dispatches from the Highlands
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Aer nine short weeks, we can’t believe it’s here. We’ve reached the nale week of the Great Cannatown Baking Show , and our three nalists--Byrona, Tita, and Sloopy Joe--are grinding ganj and torching their nails one last time. ey know they have but three opportunities to get the judges completely roasted o their gourds and rise higher than the others to join the ranks of the 10 previous GCBS winners. Filmed at Waxford Park, twelve bakers have captured our hearts and boggled our minds in their quest for the best, depending on traditional methodology with innova- tive styling. Unlike some past seasons, this round of amateurs have been professional- grade, a far cry from the show’s rst run, that saw most tasks centered around kni es, rolling blunts, and goo-balls. Bakers in Cannatown, a long-favored position, are di erent than budtenders or stash THE GREAT BAKE-OFF ENDS Contestants Vie to Create Greatest Bakes By Entertainment Editor Debbie Sims
for the nale episode, and the challenges will no doubt test the baker’s full range of experience. Last season, woodworker Gina Yeardly craed a giant four-hosed spinning bong named El Nino to seize the victory. Another season saw a metal worker with a panache for pyrotechnics persevere. And no one will forget food sculptor Eddie Billart incorporating a hazelnut banger in a sculpture of an Oompa Loompa, letting the vapor percolate through a series of kumquats. Over the
past few w e e k s , the bak- ers have been faced with rosin, t e mp l e b a l l s , t u r k i s h and mo- r o c c a n
caddies. ey’re oen confused with those who simply roll joints or make edibles. In reality, a Baker is almost all of those things, presenting eclectic and novel smak- ing experiences for their clientele. Likewise, the entire TV series began with Judge Paula’s request for a method of chee ng utilizing at least one piece of lawn machinery. Although doctors would later reattach the thumb of contestant Roody Jones lost to a weed-whacker, he would go on to be voted o during the episode. ere is no set theme
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