I entered my “Two Sons Salsa” in a cooking contest at last weekend’s Fire in the Park Chili Cook Off. I did it to see what t was like to take part in competitive cooking. Newspaper food editors served as judges of the competitions or covered the competitions as news. The Pillsbury Bake-Off always included newspaper food editors as judges, and the Great American Cook-Off—a contest restricted to male contestants—also was judged by food editors. News from that particular contest ran in Sports Illustrated. Houston Chronicle food editor Ann Criswell judged several national cooking competitions, including the National Beef Cook-Off, the National Chicken Cooking Contest, and America’s Cookout Championship for…