ANNAPOLIS, MD (JUNE 21, 2010) \u2013 Do you have a fabulous oyster recipe?\u00a0 Do you receive rave reviews whenever you serve it?\u00a0 If so, you may be awarded $1,300 and a silver tray by entering your best original oyster recipe in the 31st Annual National Oyster Cook-off.\u00a0 Be sure to enter your original recipe by Aug. 22, 2010.\u00a0 You may be selected as one of nine contestants to compete at the cook-off on Sat., Oct. 16th in Leonardtown, Maryland.<\/p>\n
Cash prizes of $300, $200 and $150 will by awarded to the top three finalists in each of the categories:\u00a0 Hors d\u2019oeuvres, Soups and Stews, and Main Dish.\u00a0 The Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the first place winners of each category and will receive an additional $1,000 and a silver tray.\u00a0 There will also be awards for Best Presentation of dish and People\u2019s Choice.\u00a0 In addition to cash prizes, contestants receive one night of hotel accommodations, and an invitation to a welcome reception.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s winners were: Hors d\u2019oeuvres division \u2013 Brendan Cahill, of Lusby, Maryland for his Beach House Oysters with Sherry; Grand Prize and Main Dish division \u2013 Jackie Hardin, Galena, Maryland for her Oyster Tacos with Chipotle Cream Sauce, Soups and Stews division \u2013 Jim McDuffie of Durham, North Carolina for his Outer Banks Poached Oysters on Smoked Pimento Cheese Grits.<\/p>\n
The National Oyster Cook-off is held in conjunction with the St. Mary\u2019s County Oyster Festival and the world-famous National Oyster Shucking Contest.\u00a0 The cook-off is sponsored by the Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s Seafood Marketing Program, St. Mary\u2019s County Department of Economic and Community Development and the Rotary Club of St. Mary\u2019s (Lexington Park).<\/p>\n
To enter, see the contest rules at www.marylandseafood.org<\/a> or request a hard copy by calling 410-841-5820.\u00a0 The 30th Annual Cookbook, containing 31 award winning recipes is now available.\u00a0 Send a check for $6, payable to the National Oyster Cook-off Cookbook to: National Oyster Cook-off Cookbook, Department of Economic and Community Development, P.O. Box 653, Leonardtown, MD\u00a0 20650.<\/p>\n # # #<\/p>\n Follow MDA on Twitter @MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANNAPOLIS, MD (JUNE 21, 2010) \u2013 Do you have a fabulous oyster recipe?\u00a0 Do you receive rave reviews whenever you serve it?\u00a0 If so, you may be awarded $1,300 and a silver tray by entering your best original oyster recipe in the 31st Annual National Oyster Cook-off.\u00a0 Be sure to enter your original recipe by Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}