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Youth cooking contest at Royal Winter Fair
October 19, 2009
Jennifer Bain
So do you think you can cook a $15 dish made with three Ontario-grown ingredients at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair? Even with only a skillet, or pot, and a hot plate on stage – so no baking or grilling?
If you are aged 13 to 25, consider entering the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council's "So You(th) Think You Can Cook" competition. Three finalists aged 13 to 17 will cook at 1 p.m. Nov. 7 at the fair. Three more aged 18 to 25 will do the same at the same time on Nov. 14. Contestants must submit original recipes and have 20 minutes to cook, but can prep in advance. The deadline is Oct. 23. Applications are atgroups.google.ca/group/sytycc.
Judges include Restaurant Makeover's Brad Long, executive chef of Veritas, and two council members. They'll award points for taste, originality, presentation and cleanliness. Prizes include shadowing Long for a day at Veritas, a cooking lesson from Hearty Catering, dorm-friendly cooking appliances, gardening classes, gift baskets from Culinarium Toronto, autographed copies of The No Nonsense Guide to World Food by Wayne Roberts and more.
The contest, co-created by Journey to Your Good Health, aims to highlight the lack of healthful food policy in schools, and the need for affordable food.
Toronto Star