410332 Mon Jun 11 13:09:46 -0700 2007 6 14 Washington DC & Baltimore Area 0 2649721 Does anyone know if any cooking competitions or tournaments around the DC Metro Area? I have been looking online, craigslist and in the papers for a few months now with no luck. If anyone knows of any or any orgainzers it would be great to hear from you. I would really like to enter some local competitions Mon Jun 11 13:09:46 -0700 2007 104554 Casey Taylor Patten 1 2652036 no one has ever heard of anything about these events? Tue Jun 12 08:13:56 -0700 2007 2649721 104554 Casey Taylor Patten 2 2652064 There is a national BBQ tournament on Pennsylvania Ave at the end of June. Not sure how to enter or if it is still open. Tue Jun 12 08:23:15 -0700 2007 2652036 67868 amorgs 1 2653211 There are BBQ and chili cookoffs in various DC and suburb towns, that's about it. I am sure you can google those. I know the chili one is already over for this year. Tue Jun 12 12:58:08 -0700 2007 2649721 92426 ktmoomau 1 2653419 There was a Delmarva chicken recipe contest. Lots of the Chesapeake Bay area county festivals have oyster shucking contests in the Fall - good luck against the locals who've been doing it since they were allowed to use knives. At one time there was a MD oyster recipe contest. And occasionally other seafood cooking contests sponsored by the states of MD and VA. All the county fairs. They publish the rules for baking, preserving and other "home arts." Montgomery and Fairfax County have big ones. Tue Jun 12 13:51:13 -0700 2007 2649721 32444 MakingSense 2 2654053 Thank you - Does anyone have a link? Tue Jun 12 16:39:24 -0700 2007 2653419 104554 Casey Taylor Patten 3 2654153 You can get the links the same way I can - Google, etc. Here's one http://www.chickencookingcontest.com/contest_history.cfm Just google the names of the counties near the DC Metro area for festivals - they all have calendars. Google the county name + county fair. State + state fair. Etc. Southern Living magazine has lists like this all the time. Saveur magazine mentions a lot of them. Even if you don't enter, these are really fun to attend. Interviews with winners are interesting reading. Some of them win the first time out with one recipe. Others enter multiple recipes each year, year after year before winning. There seem to be some tricks to the types of recipes judges look for, so reading up might be a good idea for fine-tuning your entries. You might make some changes to a fabulous recipe just to make a suck-up-to-the-judges version only for purposes of winning a contest. Some require a brand name product. Sad but true. Tue Jun 12 17:05:49 -0700 2007 2654053 32444 MakingSense