Four Triangle-based food and beverage companies were honored in the third annual Good Food Awards competition.

Durham's Fullsteam Brewery won for its first frost beer. Raleigh's Escazu Artisan Chocolates won in the confections contest with its dark chocolate basil ganache. Alamance County's Blessed Earth Farm won in the pickle category with its summer squash curry relish. And the Hillsborough-based Farmer's Daughter Brand won in the preserves contest with its rosey strawberry rhubarb preserves.

Congratulations to all the winners.

The Good Food Awards are an annual competition that recognizes tasty foods and beverages made by socially-responsible and sustainable food producers.

To see the complete list of winners announced last weekend, go to goodfoodawards.org.

The annual Good Food Awards honoring artisan food and beverage producers has named a handful of North Carolina companies among its finalists:

• Alamance County's Blessed Earth Farm won in the preserves category with its Summer Squash Curry Relish and Chapel Hill's Farmer's Daughter Brand won for its Rosey Strawberry Rhubarb Preserves.
• In the beer contest, Fullsteam Brewery in Durham won for its First Frost brew.
• In the confections category, Raleigh's Escazú Artisan Chocolates won with its Dark Chocolate Basil Ganache and Asheville's Looking Glass Creamery won for its Caramelita.

To see a complete list, go HERE.

The winners will be announced Jan. 8.

The finalists have been announced for the Good Food Awards with several NC companies in the mix.  In fact, NC has finalists in four of the seven categories.

The list of 80 winners will be announced January 14th, 2011.

Carrboro Coffee Company are listed with their El Aguacate coffee, Counter Culture Coffee with the Finca Kilimanjaro coffee, Weeping Radish Farm Brewery with their Liverwurst and Farmer’s Daughter with her Spicy Green Tomato pickles, Bourbon’d Figs & Muscadine Preserves.

April McGreger of Farmer's Daughter based in Carrboro.