{"id":7360,"date":"2016-05-09T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2016-05-09T11:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:31:51","slug":"mushroom-fest-grand-prize-golden-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=7360","title":{"rendered":"Mushroom Fest grand prize: Golden Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-393\" src=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MushroomWorldFood-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"MushroomWorldFood\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/>The Mushroom Festival is pleased to announce that the winner of this year\u2019s Amateur Mushroom Cook-Off will win a Golden Ticket to compete in the World Food Championships. Our Amateur Mushroom Cook-Off is officially a Preferred Qualifier event of the World Food Championship in the Recipe (Breakfast) category.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Mushroom Festival\u2019s Golden Ticket winner will have all registration fees paid and receive $1000 in travel expenses to attend the World Food Championships in Orange Beach, Alabama on November 8 to 15, 2016. At the World Food Championship, competition is fierce with $300,000 in cash and additional prizes awarded, including the grand prize of $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 400 pre-qualified competitors will enter one of nine competition categories beginning Nov. 8, and the champion of the 31st Annual Mushroom Festival\u2019s Amateur Mushroom Cook-off will be among them,\u201d said Mike McCloud, CEO of the World Food Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Amateur Mushroom Cook-Off is Breakfast! Do you make a great mushroom omelet or maybe a mushroom pancake? The challenge is to create a breakfast dish featuring the mushrooms that are commercially grown in Kennett Square, such as button, crimini, portabella, oyster, maitake, and\/or shiitake.<\/p>\n<p>From all the entries submitted, six finalists will be selected to prepare their recipes in the Mushroom Festival&#8217;s Special Events Tent on Saturday, September 10 at 10:30 am. The First Place winner will receive the Golden Ticket to the World Food Championship as the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Rules, regulations and the application can be downloaded for the Mushroom Festival\u2019s Amateur Mushroom Cook-Off online at mushroomfestival.org, click on the Amateur Mushroom Cook-Off link on the home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mushroom Festival is pleased to announce that the winner of this year\u2019s Amateur Mushroom Cook-Off will win a Golden Ticket to compete in the World Food Championships. Our Amateur Mushroom Cook-Off is officially a Preferred Qualifier event of the World Food Championship in the Recipe (Breakfast) category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[124,1925,4271],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kennett-square","tag-mushroom-festival","tag-world-food-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7361,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions\/7361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}