Cooking Contests

[PA Baker]

Alix's I Won thread got me thinking about cooking and recipe contests. I've never thought to enter one; in fact, I'm not even sure how to find out about the smaller ones. I thought maybe we could start a thread to keep each other updated when we see contests announced that we want to share with each other and links to resources about contests.

Here are a few I came up with from Googling.
http://www.foodreference.com/html/recipecontests.html
http://ca.dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Food_and_Drink/Contests/
http://www.goldkist.com/consumer/contest.asp
http://www.communityfood.com/dir-cache/Food___Nutrition/Contests/
http://www.recipecontests.com/ Looks like you have to buy a subscription to this one

 

[Raine]

The last one has a listing of some of the contests.

Anyone interested in BBQ contests, just holler and we'll see if we can hook you up.

 

[Raine]

This may be helpful.

http://www.webtdcenter.com/bookta.html

 

[Raine]

http://www.chickenfestival.com/cooking.htm

 

[Raine]

http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Food_and_Drink/Contests/

 

[Raine]

http://www.contestcook.com/

 

[AllenOK]

This fall, just in time for you local county/state fair, find out how to enter their cooking contests. Traditionally there is a baking contest for breads, cookies, cakes, etc. While I lived in Tulsa, OK, I found out that there is also a cooking contest for entrees. Due to the perishable nature of those foods, they aren't displayed during the fair itself. I bought a cookbook that included all the recipes entered for that year. I also found out that professionals were NOT barred from competing. I always thought that was an unfair advantage, myself. I never got around to entering.

You might want to write/email the editor of your local newspaper and ask for the scheduled calender cooking contests in your area.