Finally - a place to discuss cooking contests!

[sattie]

Welcome to DC steffi!

[pdswife]

Hi, welcome to our group!!!!

[DaveSoMD]

Originally Posted by steffi67

cool they sent me like 10 copies of that magazine and a free subscription for a year you still want to enter any contests? i can tell you where to look

Steffi,

Yes I'd love to know where to look for contests!

Thanks!!!

[steffi67]

the best place i found was foodreference.com or go to google and put in cooking and recipe contests

[steffi67]

i have submitted 2 recipes for the national chicken cookoff all ready and i want to get 2 to 3 more in it's for 50,000 the pillsbury one is 2 years away and the build a better burger is coming up this summer and thats for 50,000 plus i'm in a few small one at taste of home

[Ryan_ Clark_nzchef]

hello all im a young chef in nz and have been in a few comps b4 i started my apprenticeship but am now going to enter more serious comps and was wondering if any1 has any advice on coming up with great ideas

[kitchenelf]

Originally Posted by Ryan_ Clark_nzchef

hello all im a young chef in nz and have been in a few comps b4 i started my apprenticeship but am now going to enter more serious comps and was wondering if any1 has any advice on coming up with great ideas

You do a lot of searching and looking and then some experimenting of your own. Like any other great idea that someone comes up with - they draw inspiration from things they see.