Calling Professional Restaurant Chefs in the San Francisco Bay Area & Sacramento Counties!

The 2009 National Beef Cook-Off® is heading to your backyard in beautiful Sonoma, California on September 21, 2009. If you're a professional chef working in the Bay Area or Sacramento metropolitan counties, we're seeking your original, newly developed beef dish. Do you think you have what it takes to compete with your eclectic
"Best of Beef" dish?

Calling Home Cooks nationwide and Restaurant Chefs in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento metropolitan counties! Showcase your "Sonoma-Style" by entering your best original beef recipes in the 2009 National Beef Cook-Off, between January 1 and March 31, 2009.

Between January 1 - July 3, 2009, submit your original, newly developed beef dish for 24 servings, that best portrays "Sonoma-Style" cooking at www.beefcookoff.org or via mail to:

National Beef Cook-Off Entries
American National CattleWomen, Inc.
P.O. Box 3881
Englewood, CO 80155

Six (6) professional chef finalists will be selected to compete in a private Chef/Media Team Challenge
on September 21, 2009 for prizes including:

GRAND PRIZE (1)
One paid registration and trip to attend the December 2009 "Beef 101 Seminar" at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. This 2 1/2 day immersion will provide you with intensive, hands-on training for everything you need to know in order to capitalize on Beef Profit Power. Approximate retail value of $1,650.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD (1)
One paid registration to the 2009 Culinary Institute of America's "Worlds of Flavor" International Conference & Festival, which is the most influential professional forum on world cuisines and culinary flavor trends in the United States. Approximate retail value of $1,095.

FIRST PLACE (4)
Four first place winners receive $500. Participants will also earn bragging rights and media attention for their participation in the event. For the complete list of rules, eligibility requirements and category detail, please visit www.beefcookoff.org.