The OFFICIAL North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Recipe Contest
This is your chance sweet potato fans. This could be your way to turn $5 in Wal-Mart sweet potatoes into real cash. $5,000 in prize money is up for grabs for the best soup, salad, side or sweet recipes. $500 will be awarded in each of three categories and $3,000 will go the overall winner.
The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission, located in Smithfield, NC is sponsoring the Commission’s first-ever NATIONAL consumer sweet potatoe recipe contest. A total of $5,000 in prize money will be awarded - a $500 prize for the winner in each of the four categories (soup, salad, side, sweet) and a grand prize of $3,000 to the winner who will be chosen from among the four category winners. A contest Web site is up and just waiting for sweet potato lovers to submit their favorite sweet potato creations.
The place to submit your recipes is: http://www.getfreshwithsweetpotatoes.com/.
Who: North Carolina SweetPotato Commission with promotional sponsor Taste of the South magazine
What: The get Fresh with North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Recipe Contest
Where: Open to legal residents of the United States
When: Recipe submissions are being accepted through April 15, 2008. Final judging will take place in test kitchens of Taste of the South magazine. Winners will be announced May 2008.
Why: To discover the creative and innovative ways home cooks are using fresh sweet potatoes and to reward their efforts. And because sweet potatoes taste good!
How: Enter online at http://www.getfreshwithsweetpotatoes.com/ or mail entry(ies) to:
Get Fresh with North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Recipe Contest,
P.O. Box 575,
Selma, N.C. 27576.
Complete rules are posted on the Web site, or you can send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the contst address above with a request for a copy of the rules.
The staff of Relocate Clayton is also accepting submissions for professional sweet potato recipe tasting and pre-judging. There are no losers in the Relocate Clayton tasting contest. Everybody wins. We eat. You get told that your cooking is good. What better reward could there be? I mean, other than the chance at $3,500 in the national contest? Email us at relocateclayton@gmail.com for details and submission arrangements.
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