How to Apply
Registration for the 2008 cook-offs have ended. Watch our website beginning in early January 2009 for instructions on how to enter the championship cook-offs. Deadline is usually the end of February.
2008 National Cornbread Cook-Off Search
Martha White® Announces Call for Entries for the 2008 Cornbread Cook-Off National Cornbread Festival in Search of Nation's Best Cornbread Recipes Attention all home cooks and cornbread connoisseurs! Grab your aprons and your cast iron skillets. The National Cornbread Festival is in search of original main dish cornbread recipes to be entered into the 12th Annual National Cornbread Cook-Off sponsored by Martha White Foods Inc. and Lodge Cast Iron®.
Ten finalists will be chosen from all entries and will compete during the National Cornbread Festival and create their original cornbread specialties under the Big Cook-Off Tent on April 26 in South Pittsburg, Tenn. One lucky winner will be chosen as the reigning cornbread champion.
Cash and Prizes
The Cook-Off champion will win a $5,000 cash prize and a 30-inch Five Star® stainless steel gas range from Five Star Professional Cooking Equipment, a division of Brown Stove Works, Inc. (a $2,500 value) and special gifts from Martha White® and Lodge Cast Iron®.
The second prize winner will walk away with $500, the third prize winner with $300. The remaining seven finalists will each be awarded $100. All finalists will receive $500 travel reimbursement and gifts courtesy of Martha White® and Lodge Cast Iron®.
How to Enter
To qualify for the contest, an entry must be an original Main Dish recipe and prepared with at least one cup of Martha White® Corn Meal or one package of Martha White® Cornbread Mix using Lodge Cast Iron® cookware. Entries must also include contestant's name, complete mailing address, daytime phone number, and date of birth.
To enter by e-mail
Send your original recipe along with your complete contact information to cornbread@dvl.com. E-mail entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. CST on Feb. 29, 2008.
To enter by mail
Send your original recipe and complete contact information on an 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper to: National Cornbread Cook-Off 2008, 209 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37219. Mail-in entries must be postmarked by Feb. 29, 2008 and received by March 7, 2008.
Please see the Official Rules for complete details.
View past winning recipes available on the Martha White web site.
Sponsored by Martha White Foods, Inc., Lodge Manufacturing Company, and Brown Stove Works, Inc. Open to U.S. residents, 18 years or older, except food professionals, such as chefs, food writers, or food home economists who create recipes for pay. Void outside the 50 United States and D.C. and where prohibited.