DATE: Wednesday, August 20, 1997            TAG: 9708190072

SECTION: FLAVOR                  PAGE: F4   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY KAREN SANTOS, STAFF WRITER 

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TASTE VICTORY IN THESE FOOD CONTESTS

HAVE YOU EVER wanted to be in print? Now's your chance. Culinary Art of Tidewater is holding a cooking contest for its next edition of Culinary Artists: Tidewater's Regional Chefs Cookbook.

Each contestant can submit up to three recipes.

Previously unpublished, original recipes will be accepted through Oct. 1. All recipes must be typed and serve six or less. Ingredients must be readily available, and listed in the order in which they appear in the procedures.

Include your name, address, day and evening phone number and mail to: Culinary Art of Tidewater, P.O. Box 6231, Norfolk, VA 23508. email to caot(AT)series2000.com

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the homemade ice cream churn, Edy's is sponsoring a contest in search of ice cream churns/freezers. They can be old or new, hand-cranked or not.

Categories include most appreciated, crankiest, cutest, homeliest and oldest.

Send a picture with 250 words or less of your churn's qualifications in the selected category.

Five first-place winners will receive a trip for two to Houston to tour Edy's Grand Ice Cream factory.

Entries must be postmarked by Aug. 31, 1997, and mailed to: Churn Challenge, Edy's Grand Ice Cream, 5929 College Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94618. One entry per person.

Quaker Oats announces its ``Bake It Better With Oats'' recipe contest.

A grand prize of $12,000 will be given for the best of contest. One first prize winner in each category will receive $1,200.

To receive a copy of the official rules, call (800) FOR OATS, send an e-mail to OatContest(AT)aol.com, access Quaker's web site at http://www.quakeroatmeal.com, or send a stamped, self-addressed envelop to: Quaker Contest Rules, P.O. Box 1370, Barrington, Ill. 60011.

Entries must be postmarked by midnight, Oct. 31, 1997.

You must use at least one Country Crock container (tub, squeeze bottle, or stick carton) to win the Shedd's Spread Country Crock Creations Contest.

Grand prize winner will receive a ``create-your-own vacation'' worth $10,000.

For contest rules send a self-addressed stamped envelope by Oct. 31, 1997, to Contest Requests, P.O. Box 5141, Department A, Parsippany, NJ 07054-6141. All entries must be received by Nov. 21, 1997.

The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line is hosting the ``Butterball's Most Creative Soup and Sandwich'' recipe contest.

Two winners will receive $500 and Butterball Turkey gift certificates.

Participants must be 18 and older. Original recipes must have no more than 10 ingredients and include turkey as a meat ingredient. Entries must be received by Sept. 15, 1997.

Send recipe to: Butterball's Most Creative Soup and Sandwich'' recipe contest, P.O. Box 81830, Chicago, Ill. 60681-0830 or through Internet at www.butterball.com.

Kids can sing their way to a $20,000 college scholarship and star in an Oscar Mayer commercial by singing the Oscar Mayer Weiner Jingle or Bologna Song.

The Oscar Mayer Talent Search is on. The Weinermobile will be rolling into Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Hampton sometime before Sept. 1.

But if you don't like crowds you can send a VHS videotape of the child singing along with a complete entry form (available at participating stores). Only one mail-in/live audition per contestant.

Mail tapes to Oscar Mayer Talent Search Contest, 1548 Front St., Blair, Neb. 68008.

For more information including location and time of upcoming auditions call (800) OSCAR KID.

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