Southern Living Wants Your Best Recipe

Southern Living Wants Your Best Recipe

Southern Living Announces Cook-Off 2005; Grand Prize Winner Takes Home $100,000

Enter today at www.southernlivingcookoff.com

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Do people always say your recipes are winners? Now's your chance to prove it ... and win $100,000. Southern Living is currently accepting entries for Southern Living Cook-Off 2005, featuring a $100,000 Grand Prize. Submission deadline is June 15, 2005.

Southern Living Cook-Off 2005, the largest annual cook-off in America, will introduce a new category this year: "Your Best Recipe." Susan Dosier, Southern Living executive foods editor, describes it as "your signature recipe ... that favorite recipe someone is always asking you for."

People who love to cook from all across the country can enter their favorite recipes in any of the five categories: Your Best Recipe, Easy Entrees, Healthy and Good For You, Kids Love It!, and Southern Desserts. Simplicity is key when considering recipe entries.

"This is an incredibly fun way to connect with our readers," says Dosier. "We can zero in on trends, creativity, and ingredients and also learn what people are cooking in their kitchens."

There is no cost to enter the contest and no limit to the number of recipes one may enter. All entries must be original and must include at least one Cook-Off sponsor product. Entries must be postmarked by June 15, 2005. Entry forms, sponsor lists, and complete contest rules are available at www.southernlivingcookoff.com .

Fifteen finalists will be selected to compete for the $100,000 Grand Prize. Each category winner receives $10,000. In addition, Southern Living will donate $10,000 to the Grand Prize winner's favorite charity.

Finalists will prepare their recipes simultaneously for judging in the Southern Living Test Kitchens in Birmingham on September 21. Food experts selected by Southern Living will judge the finalists on originality, taste, ease of preparation, visual appeal, and use of eligible sponsor products. Winners will be announced at the Cook-Off Grand Finale Event September 22 at the Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham, where finalists will demonstrate their recipes.

Winning recipes will be available in the January 2006 issue of Southern Living and at www.southernlivingcookoff.com .

A one-hour television special featuring highlights from the 2004 contest will air on Food Network, Saturday, February 26, 2005, 10 p.m., EST. "Challenge: Southern Living Showdown" followed last year's finalists as they competed for the $100,000 Grand Prize.

Southern Living Cook-Off now is in its fourth consecutive year. For more information on the Cook-Off or to download images, please visit www.southernlivingcookoff.com .

Southern Living ( www.southernliving.com ), the premier lifestyle and entertaining magazine of the South and 10th largest monthly consumer magazine in the U.S., reaches more than 15 million readers each month. Published 13 times a year, Southern Living celebrates the best of life in the South. It is published by Birmingham-based Southern Progress Corporation, a Time Inc. subsidiary.


Source: Southern Living

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