Enter to win the $500 top prize in meat & non-meat categories
** Official Contest Rules **
Collard Cook-Off Greens MUST be delivered to Legacy Gardens (Dr. Carter G. Woodson Museum) by 10 A.M. on Saturday, February 18, 2023
Will your greens take home the 2023 Publix Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival’s “Festival Favorite” prize? Professional, amateur, and even the occasional cook are all encouraged to enter. Best of all, the festival goers decide the winner - Good Luck!
Official Contest Rules
To enter the 2023 Publix TBCGF Inc. Collard Green Cook-Off, each contestant must register and pay the $75 entry fee. Each contestant must fill out their email address, entry name/ business, mailing address, and contact phone number and disclose if the recipe contains ANY of the following: milk, soybeans, peanuts, wheat, eggs, fish, shellfish (crab, crayfish, lobster, or shrimp), or tree nuts (almonds, walnuts, or pecans). Without the confirmed $75 fee (paid), a registration will be considered incomplete and therefore not officially entered.
All Cook-Off entry fees are non-refundable and considered donations to the Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival Inc.
The Cook-Off registration link will be disabled at midnight on Saturday, February 11, 2023. No further entries for the Cook-Off will be accepted.
The $75 fee pays for one contest only (meat or non-meat categories). An additional $75 is required to enter both meat and non-meat contests.
Contestants must deliver a full-sized (approx. 19.5 x 11.5 x 3.5) aluminum steam pan of non-meat or meat-flavored greens with a lid.
Cook-Off entries must be received by10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 18, 2023, at the large white tent located in the Legacy Gardens of The Woodson African American Museum of Florida.
Entries must be dropped off fully cooked. Cook-Off officiants will ensure the appropriate temperature of all entries.
All dishes will be judged openly according to a point system and tabulated electronically in the following areas: COLOR, AROMA, SEASONING, TEXTURE & OVERALL TASTE.
The contest begins promptly at noon and ends at 3 p.m.
Prizes are awarded in the following areas:
Two $500 - 1st Place Festival Favorite cash prizes & trophies (meat and non-meat categories).
Two $250 - 2nd Place Festival Favorite cash prizes & trophies (meat and non-meat categories).
Two $100 – 3rd Place Festival Favorite cash prizes & trophies (meat and non-meat categories).