{"id":2282,"date":"2021-10-27T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2021-12-03T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:20:39","slug":"how-to-win-recipe-contests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2021\/10\/how-to-win-recipe-contests-2.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 probablyhttp:\/\/www.recipecontests.com\/tips.html 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><i>Bill Rice<\/i><i> is founder and Co-Publisher of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/create_make_cookbook_software.asp?utm_source=FCBP_Blog&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=FCBP_Blog&amp;utm_content=Footer\">Great Family Cookbook Project<\/a>, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Familycookbook\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/cookbookproject\/\">Pinterest<\/a>!<\/i><\/em><\/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 probablyhttp:\/\/www.recipecontests.com\/tips.html 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":12,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooking-contests","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}