Front Burner : SITINGS : Cooking Stars

If it seems those Publisher’s Clearinghouse officials never come to your door, maybe it’s time to dust off your pots and pans and cook up a winner. Cooking Contest Central can help. The Web site rounds up current and ongoing cooking contests, deadlines and rules.

Got a great s’more? There’s the S’mores contest sponsored by Honey Maid Graham Crackers. Done something wonderful with watermelon? The National Watermelon Promotion Board is waiting. An elementary school class? Create an awesome celebrity likeness using salad ingredients, and the Dressings and Sauces Assn. might award you a prize.

The site also offers contest tips, a bulletin board and--most useful, perhaps--an archive of prize-winning recipes from contests such as the Pillsbury Bake-Off to one from California Figs. But our favorite part: Move your cursor around the site, and a trail of pink stars floats behind.

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https://www.recipecontests.com/