This photo taken Sept. 22, 2009 shows Parker Hirsch trying out a Parsnip muffin. Several of the celebrity chefs from the Food Network were challenged to entice a vegetable averse child eat his veggies. Hirsch, 5, of Concord, N.H. found Alton Brown's Parsnip Muffins the winner in the taste test, although the almonds had to go. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)

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• By ncs-import
• September 29, 2009