Greater Midwest Foodways State Fair @ IL IN IA MN MO OH

Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

Family Heirloom Recipes Competition
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio

Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance is dedicated to exploring, celebrating and preserving unique food traditions and their cultural contexts in the American Midwest. By hosting public events, developing archival resources and generating publications, the Alliance celebrates the distinctiveness of a region that is as varied in tastes and traditions as it is in its geography from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains. Exploring indigenous foods like Wisconsin cranberries and Minnesota walleye, celebrating iconic flavors like the wheat and corn from across the prairies, chronicling immigrant cuisines from early Europeans to 21st-century newcomers, or highlighting fish boils and fine dining in small towns and big cities, the Alliance promotes and chronicles the diversity of the region’s culinary character.

Our Family Heirloom Recipe competition seeks your best made from scratch heirloom recipe suitable for a family or community dinner. To encourage delving deep into your family’s culinary history, please submit family recipes prior to 1950. We look forward to learning about and tasting your treasured foods.

PRIZES: 1st place - $150., 2nd place - $100., 3rd place - $50

JUDGING CRITERIA
Taste 50%, History 40%, Appearance 10%

CONTEST REQUIREMENTS
• Enter your best scratch family heirloom recipe suitable for a family or community dinner. Recipe should be from before 1950.
• Entrants must be at least 18 years of age, one entry per person. Contestants who participated before may not repeat previously entered recipes.
• Each entry must be created from one recipe.
• Every ingredient must be listed in exact measurement (no rounded teaspoons, etc.) type of ingredient (example: self-rising flour) must be specified. No mixes may be used. Follow general proper recipe procedure, listing all steps of preparation, pan sizes, temperature and baking time.
• Entries must be typed on 8-1/2 x 11 inch paper. On one page provide the recipe and contestant’s name, age at time of contest, address, phone number and email address. On a separate sheet(s) present the recipe’s history. You may include who passed the recipe down to you, ethnicity (if relevant), number of years the recipe has been in your family and any interesting information about its place in your family's traditions. Note the history accounts for 40% of the score so be sure to do justice to your recipe’s story. Please consult http://www.GreaterMidwestFoodways.com under the ‘events’ tab for examples of recipes and their histories..
• By submitting your entry, you accept official rules and agree to be bound by the judges’ decisions, which will be final. You also agree that your recipe and history narrative will become the property of Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance, which reserves the right to edit, adapt, copyright, publish and use without compensation to you.
• By participating, contestants also understand and accept the right of Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance to use contestant names, photos, history narratives and recipes for publicity without compensation.
• Each winning entry will be in a display case (18” x 18”). Your product should be displayed simply though attractively, with the use of props, such as a photograph, placemat, napkins, glassware or flowers.
• Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance is not responsible for lost or illegible recipes, nor is the fair.
• Taxes on the prizes are the responsibility of the winner.
• Recipes from the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance website (GreaterMidwestFoodways.com) are not eligible for entry in this contest.


Indiana State Fair:
Competition: Friday, August 12, check in: 1 to 3 pm. Judging commences at 3 pm at the Ellison Bakery Culinary Kitchen in the Culinary Arts building.

- Premium book: see page 32 of pdf “Department 114: Home and Family Arts” (hardcopy: pages 179-180)
http://www.in.gov/statefair/fair/compet ... dbook.html,
- Application form deadline is postmarked by July 1: “Home and Family Arts” (link listed under “Department 114”)

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Illinois State Fair:
Competition: Saturday, August 13, check in: 2 - 3 pm, awards 5:15 pm

- Premium book: page 101
http://www.agr.state.il.us/isf/premium/general.pdf,
- Application form, deadline is July 15th,: http://www.agr.state.il.us/isf/premium/ ... ryform.pdf
- Exhibitor card, submitted with application: http://www.agr.state.il.us/isf/premium/ ... rscard.pdf

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Iowa State Fair:
Competition: Sunday, August 14, judging begins at 2 pm.

- Premium book: see page 71 of pdf or hardcopy http://www.iowastatefair.org/downloads/ ... od-all.pdf
- General rules: http://www.iowastatefair.org/downloads/ ... ules-1.pdf
- Application form, deadline postmarked by July 1: http://www.iowastatefair.org/downloads/ ... form-2.pdf

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Minnesota State Fair:
Competition: Sunday, August 27, judging is closed to the public and done in advance of the fair’s opening.

- Creative Activities home page: http://www.mnstatefair.org/competition/ ... ities.html
- Premium book: see page 12 of pdf or page 41 of hard copy http://www.mnstatefair.org/_assets/pdf/ ... ing_pb.pdf
- Online Application form, deadline is Tuesday, August 9 at 4:30 pm: http://www.mnstatefair.org/register/competition/?auth

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Missouri State Fair:
Competition: Saturday, August 13, check in: 2 pm.

- Premium book: see page 4 of pdf
http://www.mostatefair.com/premium-guid ... s/food.pdf
- Application form, deadline is July 20 pr $10 late fee until July 29: http://www.mostatefair.com/Entry%20Blan ... yblank.pdf
- Recipe form: http://www.mostatefair.com/Entry%20Blan ... e_form.pdf

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Ohio State Fair:
Competition: Monday, August 1, check-in noon – 1:00 pm, judging begins at 1:00 pm in the DiSalle Center Auditorium

- Premium book: see page 5 http://www.ohiostatefair.com/osf/downlo ... linary.pdf
- Application form, deadline is June 20th:
To apply and pay online: http://ohio.fairmanager.com/
To print out form for mail-in application: http://www.ohiostatefair.com/osf/downlo ... _entry.pdf
Please DO NOT USE Ohio State Fair’s recipe form.

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Deadline for Iowa State Fair is July 1st:

Iowa State Fair:

Competition: Sunday, August 14, judging begins at 2 pm.
- Premium book: see page 71 of pdf or hardcopy http://www.iowastatefair.org/downloads/ ... od-all.pdf
- General rules: http://www.iowastatefair.org/downloads/ ... ules-1.pdf
- Application form, deadline postmarked by July 1: http://www.iowastatefair.org/downloads/ ... form-2.pdf

Indiana State Fair:
Competition: Friday, August 12, check in: 1 to 3 pm. Judging commences at 3 pm at the Ellison Bakery Culinary Kitchen in the Culinary Arts building.

- Premium book: see page 32 of pdf “Department 114: Home and Family Arts” (hardcopy: pages 179-180)
http://www.in.gov/statefair/fair/competition/open_class_handbook.html,
- Application form deadline is postmarked by July 1: “Home and Family Arts” (link listed under “Department 114”)

Deadline is July 15th

Illinois State Fair:
Competition: Saturday, August 13, check in: 2 - 3 pm, awards 5:15 pm

- Premium book: page 101
http://www.agr.state.il.us/isf/premium/general.pdf,
- Application form, deadline is July 15th,: http://www.agr.state.il.us/isf/premium/ ... ryform.pdf
- Exhibitor card, submitted with application: http://www.agr.state.il.us/isf/premium/ ... rscard.pdf

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Today is the last day to register online for the Minnesota State Fair open class competitions.

Minnesota State Fair:
Competition: Sunday, August 27, judging is closed to the public and done in advance of the fair’s opening.

- Creative Activities home page: http://www.mnstatefair.org/competition/ ... ities.html
- Premium book: see page 12 of pdf or page 41 of hard copy http://www.mnstatefair.org/_assets/pdf/ ... ing_pb.pdf
- Online Application form, deadline is Tuesday, August 9 at 4:30 pm: http://www.mnstatefair.org/register/competition/?auth

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Some first place results:

Ohio: Beef, sauerkraut and noodle of German extraction

Indiana: Swedish meatballs

Illinois: Molasses cookies

Missouri: Tamales

Pictures, histories and recipes to follow sometime soon.

Regards,

Hi,

Just learned we have 45 entries at the Minnesota State Fair. Not all of them are expected to turn up. No matter what those judges will have their work cut out for them.

First place in Indiana was Swedish meatballs.

First place in Illinois was molasses cookies.

First place in Iowa was rhubarb pie.

First place in Missouri was tamales, which according to the Josephine were the best she's ever eaten.

Pictures, recipes and histories are being worked on.

Regards,

Our winners at the Minnesota State Fair:
1st: Roberta Casey, St Paul, MN, Pretzel Cookies
2nd: Gwendolyn Swenson, North Branch, MN, Fruit Upside Down Cake
3rd: Natalie Tangen, West Saint Paul, MN, Spanish Rice

If it were not for Josephine, I would never have know about our Heirloom Recipe Competition mention on Prairie Home Companion.

Segment 3
01:06:37 GK Welcome Back/ Greetings
01:09:24 "Let It Be Me," GK and Sara Watkins with Shoes
01:12:28 "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight/ If Not For You," GK and Sara Watkins with Shoes
01:16:48 GK Intros/ Talks with Blue Ribbon Judges re: Fair Food (Jean Wolf, Lola Whalen, Dorothy Jones)

The whole show is available to listen to here: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2011/09/03/