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OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES
CONTEST ELIGIBILITY
PastryScoop.com’s Golden Scoop Awards are open to legal residents of the United States of America aged 18 years and older. Applicants must be employed as a professional pastry or culinary chef, baker, or confectioner (at any level) at the time of submitting their entry. Employees and immediate family members of PastryScoop.com, The French Culinary Institute, and M. Shanken Communications, Inc. are barred from entering. 2007 winners are eligible to participate but may not enter in the same award category they won last year.
HOW TO ENTER
Applicants may submit an unlimited number of entries (using separate application forms) in any of the five award categories: Best Dessert Menu, Most Innovative Dessert, Best Dessert Revival, Best Confection, and Best Bakery Recipe.
Each entry must be accompanied by a completed application form. Best Dessert Menu entries must also include a written menu. Entries in all other award categories must include a recipe—listing the name of the entry, ingredients, procedure, and plating instructions (where applicable)—in addition to a digital photograph or print measuring no less than 4" x 6" of the completed dessert.
All items should be submitted together in a single package, with the exception of digital photographs under 1MB, which should be emailed with the entrant’s name, award category, and name of entry in the body of the message. Larger files should be submitted by CD.
Incomplete submissions and entries not complying with all Contest Rules will be disqualified. PastryScoop.com will not be responsible for late, lost, illegible, damaged, misdirected, or postage-due entries. All entries must be postmarked no later then May 12, 2008 and sent to the following address:
PastryScoop.com
ATTN: Golden Scoop Awards
434 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10013
Photos (no larger than 1MB) may be emailed to info@pastryscoop.com
Recipes and menus must be original and not the property of another individual, company, or third party. Recipes deemed unoriginal or copyrighted by another individual will be disqualified. By submitting your recipe, you accept all Contest Rules and agree to be bound by the decisions of the judges, which will be final. Entrants grant PastryScoop.com the right to test, adapt, or modify the recipe and to make suggestions concerning substitutions, as well as to edit the recipe for clarity and typographical or grammatical errors. PastryScoop.com, The French Culinary Institute, and M. Shanken Communications, Inc. are granted first rights to publish the recipe, photograph, and menu and to use entrants’ names and biographical information for promotional and publicity purposes without limitation and without compensation to the entrant.
RECIPE EVALUATION AND NOTIFICATION OF FINALISTS
PastryScoop.com will select five entries for Best Dessert Menu and three entries in all other categories as finalists based on creativity (30%), originality (30%), and overall appeal (40%). Finalists will be notified by telephone no later than May 21st. Finalists must provide a clear digital headshot and a short bio (fewer than 200 words).
JUDGING AND AWARDS CEREMONY
Finalists’ entries will be presented to a judging panel made up of professional pastry chefs and food industry professionals for a blind tasting on June 19th at The French Culinary Institute in New York City. Finalists are required to participate in judging as follows:
- Best Dessert Menu - no action required.
- Best Confection and Best Bakery - finalists must submit 8 portions, either by mail or in person, to PastryScoop.com by 3:00pm on June 19th.
- Most Innovative Dessert and Best Dessert Revival - finalists must attend judging ceremony to plate 8 portions. Finalists who cannot attend the judging and decline to choose a representative to appear in their place will be disqualified.
Entries will be evaluated as follows:
- Best Dessert Menu – creativity (25%), originality (25%), balance (25%), and overall appeal (25%) of menu concepts
- Most Innovative Dessert – originality (20%), overall appearance (20%), taste (30%), and innovative use of flavor, ingredients, or techniques (30%) in a plated dessert
- Best Dessert Revival – originality (20%), overall appearance (20%), taste (30%), and execution of an adaptation of a classic or nostalgic dessert from the past (30%) as a plated dessert
- Best Confection – originality (30%), overall appearance (30%), and taste (40%) of a candy or confection
- Best Bakery Recipe – originality (30%), overall appearance (30%), and taste (40%) of a baked good
The judges’ scores will be tallied, and the finalists with the highest overall scores in each award category will be declared the winners. The winners will be announced at the Golden Scoop Awards Ceremony at The French Culinary Institute on June 23rd. All finalists are encouraged, though not required, to attend at their own expense.
PRIZES
Each winner will receive a $1,000 prize. The winning recipes and menu will also be featured in PastryScoop.com’s and Food Arts’ Golden Scoop Awards promotions and public relations outreach with credit given to the winners. This contest is void where prohibited or otherwise regulated. All federal, state, and local laws apply. Winners will be solely responsible for personal tax liability resulting from prize awards.
LIABILITY
By entering, entrants agree to comply with all Official Contest Rules, as stated, and to release PastryScoop.com, The French Culinary Institute, M. Shanken Communications, Inc., as well as its officers, employees, and agencies, from any and all loss, cost, damage, and/or liability as a result of limitation to claims, costs, injuries, losses, or damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation or portrayal in a false light. PastryScoop.com, The French Culinary Institute, M. Shanken Communcations, Inc. are not responsible for any claims made by winners, entrants, or any other third parties, related in any way to the operation of the Contest as well as any property of any kind resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize of participation in any Contest-related activity or participation in this Contest.
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