{"id":181,"date":"2008-11-09T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2008\/11\/how-to-win-recipe-contests.html"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T17:54:22","slug":"how-to-win-recipe-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2008\/11\/how-to-win-recipe-contests.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Win Recipe Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few tips for increasing your chances to win a recipe contest found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recipecontests.com\/tips.html\">Cooking Contest Central<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow the rules.<\/strong><br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t want to miss out because you took a short cut. This is probably the most important. If you omit something because you don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s important, it could disqualify you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Play the name game.<\/strong><br \/>\nA creative and unusual name will get the judges&#8217; attention. Descriptive words that capture the feeling of your dish add to its overall interest. A catchy name is good except if the rules specify no catchy names, of course.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWhat is currently a hot food topic?<\/strong><br \/>\nCheck out some food magazines and see what everybody is talking about. If southwest flavoring is hot, then think about adding a southwest twist to your recipe. Even if you are submitting a tried-and-true dish from your favorite <a>family cookbook<\/a>, you might want to give it a trendy new twist. Judges seem to favor recipes that have a popular twist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep it simple.<\/strong><br \/>\nMake sure your ingredients can be found at most markets.Complicated recipes don&#8217;t often win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appearance is very important.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt might taste delicious, but, if it doesn&#8217;t look good, it doesn&#8217;t have a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few tips for increasing your chances to win a recipe contest found on Cooking Contest Central. Follow the rules. You don&#8217;t want to miss out because you took a short cut. This is probably the most important. If you omit something because you don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s important, it could disqualify you. Play &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-contests","category-resources-on-the-web","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}