Annual LI Garlic Festival
Great Garlic Cookoff
Guidelines for Entries
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· The cookoff will take place rain or shine.
· Pick up an entry form from the admission gate or the farmstand counter, fill it out, and give it to the cookoff coordinator or the farmstand counter. Leave your dish at the designated location and write your name or place a tape with your name on it on the underside of any dishes you need returned.
· Entries will be accepted until approximately 3pm.
· Judging will begin at approximately 3:30 pm.
· If you would like to reheat your dish for judging, please go to the cookoff location around 3:15 to check on the exact judging time. You can use the designated microwave inside the farmstand for reheating your entry, if necessary. Unfortunately no other cooking or preparation facilities exist at the cookoff location.
· The judges will taste each entry and score them numerically in a variety of categories, including taste, texture, appearance, originality, and "appropriate garlickyness." Judging cards will not be made public or shared with entrants.
· Numerical scores will be tallied in each category and first, second, third place and honorable mention will be announced in every category with at least four entrants. If there are fewer entrants in a category, categories may be combined.
· Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third place in each category. Prizes are at the discretion of Garden of Eve Farm. If you do not receive your prize the day of the cookoff, you are welcome to pick it up anytime before October 15 at the Garden of Eve farmstand during regular hours of operation which are 10am-6pm daily. Call 631-722-8777 to reach the farmstand.
· If you leave before finding out how you placed in the cookoff, you can call the farmstand at 631-722-8777 to find out whether you placed and claim any prizes, dishes, etc. left behind.
· After the judging, we will make cookoff entries for general tasting by festival-goers. Most likely your entry will be completely eaten and enjoyed!
· After your dish has been eaten, you are free to recover any dishes, utensils, decorative items etc. you had set out. All dishes may be removed by 5pm on Saturday.
· If you have other questions, call the farmstand at 722-8777 or Eve at 631-523-6608.
· The festival will end at 6 pm. All trash must be placed in the dumpster that will be available in the parking lot.
