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Food for Thought Festival 2006
Recipe Contest
"Just Cooking: Fresh Thinking for the Kitchen"

"Just Cooking" is a way of looking at food that considers the health and wholeness of all the people and systems who produce and consume it.  It also means making healthy, local ingredients available so everyone has access to foods that are fresh, minimally processed, locally and/or sustainably produced, flavorful and nutritious.

The Recipe Contest is now closed. 
CLICK HERE FOR THIS YEAR'S WINNING RECIPES!

$500 Cash Grand Prize!

  Other prizes include:  

  • Overnight stay at the Arbor House
  • Lunch for two at L'Etoile/Cafe Soleil
  • Breakfast, lunch or brunch for two at Marigold Kitchen
  • $100 gift certificate to Elegant Foods
  • $100 gift certificate to Washington Hotel -Washington Island
  • $75 gift certificate to Kessenich's
 • $75 gift certificate to Harvest Restaurant
  • $50 gift certificate to Lombardino's
  • $50 gift certificate to All Through the House in Stoughton
  • $50 gift certificate to Orange Tree Imports 
  • $40 gift certificate to RP's Pasta  

2006 Contest Entry Categories:
(You can enter any kind of dish--from soup or salad to drinks or desserts-- in any of these categories.)

• Ethnic Heritage:   Dishes with an ethnic flair

• Health and Nutrition:  Great tasting and especially good for you recipes

• Buying Local: Recipes that emphasize foods from area farmers' markets, CSA's and/or co-ops

• Gardening and Wild-Crafting: Unique creations from your own garden or foraging

• Food and Meaning: Recipes that share a special historical, religious, spiritual or other significance

• Kids' Category: For entrants who are 14 or younger.  Pick any of the above categories and be sure to tell us how old you are.

We want to hear "the story" 
behind your recipe!
Extra points will be given to recipes accompanied by a story that tells us how this recipe relates to the category theme.
 

Rules and Regulations

Three ways to enter:

• Use the on-line entry form.   
   (preferred method.)           
    
• Copy the following format onto paper and mail it to
  Food For Thought Recipe Contest
  2052 Atwood Ave.  #203
  Madison, WI  53704

• Copy the following format into the body of an e-mail and send to:
  recipecontest@reapfoodgroup.org


ENTRY FORM REQUIRED INFORMATION:

Recipe name:

Entry category:

Name(s):

Age (for Kids' category only):

Address:

City/State/Zip:

Phone:  

e-mail:

Number of servings:

Ingredients (listed in order they will be used):

 

 

 

Directions:

  

  

 

Story about your recipe (optional):

   

 

 

Rules and Regulations
Entries will be judged on: 1) best use of Midwestern ingredients; 2) flavor; 3) originality; and 4) clarity, completeness and accuracy of recipe. Limit of two entries per category per household, excluding kids category. A recipe may be entered in only one category.  Entries must be your own creation or an adaptation of another recipe. REAP is not responsible for copyright infringement and reserves the right to edit recipes. Culinary professionals and members of the REAP/Food for Thought steering and planning committees are not eligible to enter. Entrants’ names and recipes (and photos, if submitted) may be used without compensation in REAP publicity and publications. Only one prize per contestant. Previous grand prize winners are not eligible for grand prize.  Winners will be notified and may be invited—but not obligated— to demonstrate their recipe at the Food for Thought Festival on Sept. 16, 2006 in Madison. Prizes are not redeemable for cash; some may not include delivery or transportation. 

 


Just to get your creative juices flowing, here are a a couple recipes from previous year's winners...

2005 winning recipes
Recipes sampled at the Westside Community Farmers' Market
  

 

The Food for Thought Recipe Contest is brought to you 
by as part of the 2006 Food for Thought Festival

with funding from:

             

                          Madison Area Technical College Logo             

   

 

For more information on how to exhibit at, sponsor, or volunteer for Food For Thought, contact info@reapfoodgroup.org