You've weighed in, and your response was loud and clear: you want to take Cook's on in a recipe challenge. We're currently negotiating the terms with Chris "Bowtie" Kimball and will keep you posted. Look for the recipe theme and rules of play to be announced sometime in November. Sharpen your knives!

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Loulies won the contest for Your Best Fig Recipe with Fichi Caramellati.

Sonali won the contest for Your Best Stew with Olives with Braised Moroccan Chicken and Olives.

We asked them both to answer a few questions about cooking and eating.

Next week's themes will be (you can enter beginning Monday):

Your Best Chocolate Cookie (chocolate or cocoa-based)

Your Best "Ham and Cheese"

- Amanda and Merrill

Yesterday on his blog, Chris Kimball (editor and founder of Cook's Illustrated) proposed a recipe challenge to "any supporter of the WIKI or similar concept," specifically mentioning Amanda and food52 as potential opponents. (This morning, the reference miraculously disappeared -- perhaps Chris got nervous we'd actually accept?)

• "The current rage is the WIKI recipe notion — a community of on-line foodies who can select and tweak recipes to come up with the best possible version. Then there is the opposite contention — I think that only a professional test kitchen with substantial resources, strict testing protocol, and lots of time can develop the very “best” recipes, all things being equal. So, I am willing to put my money, and my reputation, where my big mouth is. I offer a challenge to any supporter of the WIKI or similar concept to jump in and go head to head with our test kitchen. We will jointly agree on a recipe, on the rules, on a time frame, etc. At the end, we will ask a panel of impartial judges to make and test the recipes and declare a winner. Should be fun! Who is interested?"

We're intrigued by the invitation, and we have some thoughts on the matter. So do some others on the internet.

What Chris sees as mutually exclusive approaches to recipe-sourcing we view as complementary ones that can peacefully co-exist. (And by the way, we're not a WIKI in a traditional sense.) That's one of the things that makes the internet so great. We didn't set out to compete with Cook's to come up with the most reliable panzanella. At food52, our mission is to inspire home cooks to share their best original recipes and most noteworthy cooking techniques with our online community -- we're more interested in a panzanella with panache. We hope that at food52, everyone (including us) learns a little something, sees the site as a resource for memorable, vetted recipes and and finds a community of like-minded cooks.

Cook's objective is admirable and always has been. (In fact, Merrill cut her own recipe testing teeth working in America's Test Kitchen years ago.) But while Chris's aim is to create "dependable" versions of familiar, tried-and-true recipes using scientific methods and relying on a team of professionals, ours is to celebrate the individuals behind great recipes. Cook's is about a foolproof test kitchen apple pie, while food52 is about going to the kitchens of great home cooks to taste the apple pie they've been making for 30 years -- or the one they modeled after a fantastic restaurant version they ate last week.

Since any food52 challenge includes you, our users, we would like to hear from you. Let us know: do you think we should take Chris on? If this challenge goes ahead, we promise to work with Chris to set some fair terms.

Congratulations to this week's winners!

MrsWheelbarrow won the contest for Your Best Mushroom Soup with Creamy Mushroom Soup.

Aliwaks won the contest for Your Best Recipe with Paprika with Smoky Fried Chickpeas.

We asked them both to answer a few questions about cooking and eating.

Next week's themes will be (you can enter beginning Monday):

Your Best Chicken with Mustard

Your Best Autumn Vegetable Puree

Here are some of the entries that impressed us this week.

Congratulations to this week's winners!

colombedujour won the contest for Your Best Apple Cake with Rum Apple Cake.

apartmentcooker won the contest for Your Best Potato Gratin with Individual Sweet Potato Gratins with Creme Fraiche, Onions and Bacon.

We asked them both to answer a few questions about cooking and eating.

Next week's themes will be (you can enter beginning Monday):

Your Best Fig Recipe

Your Best Stew with Olives

And, and...! We'd like you to vote on these upcoming themes:

Chicken with Mustard

Autumn Vegetable Puree (no potato)

TV or Movie Snack

Tell us which ones you'd prefer by leaving a comment below.

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Kamileon won the contest for Your Best Brunch Eggs with Savory Bread Pudding.

Hotplate Gourmet won the contest for Your Best Way to Cook Greens with Linguini with Breadcrumbs and Kale.

We asked them both to answer a few questions about cooking and eating.