Get your aprons on, your rolling pins warmed up, and your mixing bowls ready.  It’s that time of year again...
Join us for our 3rd Annual Pie Baking Contest.

This year our local ingredient pie baking contest has three categories:
1.  Fruit pie      2.  Savory pie      3.  Iron Chef Pie*

*This category is by preregistration only and is limited to ten participants.  A secret local ingredient will be given to participants before the contest so that they can bake their pie.

Full contest rules below.
Registration for all pie categories is required.
Contact CGC at 250.748.8506.

Cowichan Community EATS Festival
(equity…abundance…taste…sustainability)

Hosted by Cowichan Green Community

Saturday Sept. 25, 2010 from 8:30am to 3:00pm
at Charles Hoey Park, Duncan

PIE-BAKING CONTEST - 1:00pm Sat Sept 25, 2010
2010 On-Site Coordinators:  Audra Stacy and Jennifer Freshwater of CGC

CONTEST RULES & GUIDELINES:

• All Pie-Baking Contest entrants should use safe food preparation
  procedures such as in Food Safe program.

• Pie pastry and pie filling to be made from scratch by the entrant. Filling to
  feature as much local (Vancouver Island) ingredients as possible.

• Pies to be baked off-site and delivered by the entrant, to CGC Pie Contest
  Booth at Charles Hoey Park by 12:30 pm. Entrants to supply their own
  pie plate which should be labeled. Cowichan Green Community, the
  on-site coordinators, and volunteer helpers are not liable for any loss,
  theft, or damages to pies or pie plates.

• Pies will be judged by three criteria, each of which has maximum potential
  of 10 points to make up a final potential 30 point score for the perfect pie:
1. Overall appearance & Presentation (max. 10 points)   
2. Originality & Use of local ingredients (max. 10 points)
3. Taste & Texture (max. 10 points)

• There are three Pie Baking categories:
1. Category One – Fruit Pie (any local fruit)
2. Category Two – Savory Pie (any local filling)
3. Category Three – Iron Chef Pie (pre-registration is required and
    limited to 10 participants)

• There is a maximum of 1 entry per Pie Baking category. There will be two
  awards per category:  1st Prize Ribbon and 2nd Place Honorable
  Mention. In the case of a tie, the coordinator-judges will make final
  decision.

• The coordinators and a volunteer helper will receive the pies, assign
  random numbers and record the category and type of fruit/filling - this will
  be the only identifier of the pie.

• The remaining portion of pie that is not consumed by judging will be sold
  by the slice to raise funds for CGC.