The recipe for success: Cottage Grove Community Cook-off

COTTAGE GROVE — There are few places where you can find locally sourced meat, $5 plates of food, non-profits, and a celebrity chef. But if you were walking Washington Street in Cottage Grove for the annual Community Cook-off, you did. 

Despite this being only the second year Cascade Home Center has organized the cook-off, Tobi D’Amore, the event coordinator, said that the community involvement was amazing and helped the fundraiser succeed. 

Tobi D’Amore, typically Cascade…