October 8th, 2023 | 2pm-4pm

How It Works:

• You must register your Pasta or Rice Dish! Click HERE

• This competition requires either Rice or Noodles be FEATURED in the dish, but not both together. Your dish is to be pre-made/cooked to doneness and ready to serve to our certified judges. This is a blind judging process.

• Once registered, and in advance of the event, you will be allotted a specific turn-in time to present your dish. Please arrive ten minutes early before your allotted time at the Presentation Tent. Once the turn-in time begins, you will have a 10-minute window in which to arrange, heat, or garnish your turn-in dish, to be given to our Cheferee who will present your dish and read your description to the judges. Any contestant failing to arrive at the start of their ten-minute time slot will be moved to the end of the presentation schedule for that day. We will have many helpful volunteers to help keep you on track and mindful of timing while in the Presentation Tent.

• We will have an Assembly Table for each competitor (if needed) consisting of cutting boards, microwave, and butane burners for you to heat up sauces or to garnish, etc. Please bring your own cooking vessels and utensils if you need to heat up sauces, etc.

• All personal dishware, cookware, utensils, etc will be collected by a Cheferee and moved to the common kitchen area at the back of the Presentation Tent for your retrieval. Your box will be clearly marked with your registration number for easy identification. 

• For your entry, you are to prepare one “presentation plate” and three sample plates for our judges to taste. The presentation plate will be used to score the Appearance portion of the competition, as well as for Official Entry photos.

• You can present your dishes on any platter you wish, not to exceed 18 x 11 ½ inches. If you do not have a platter, one will be provided for you when you arrive in the Presentation Tent. The Show Me Series uses the official WFC Winco OPL-18 Silver Oval Platter, 18 x 11 ½ inches. Your presentation dish and samples dishes MUST fit on an 18 x 11 ½ inch platter.

• The official platter is available for purchased here: Katom Supply or also found on amazon and other cooking sites.

• Decorating of the platter is allowed and encouraged. You may bring your platter pre-decorated or use your allotted timeslot to decorate your entry.

• Do not include any non-edible garnishes on or in your presentation or judges sample plates.

• Natural Tableware is the official plate ware sponsor of the World Food Championships and the Show Me Series. Once registered, you will be sent a link to choose your sample plates. The products are of no cost to you and will be available for pick up at their warehouse location on The Hill. These products are biodegradable, compostable and disposable. These vessels will tolerate the hottest of foods, and can be microwaved. You may also choose a larger Natural Tableware plate, or chose a presentation plate of your own.

• Distinguishing marks of any kind, such as contestant names or affiliation, monograms, business names, logos, etc are not allowed. A 2-point deduction will occur after the Final Scores have been tabulated should your entry contain a mark that indicates your identity on any of the dishes presented to the judges.

• Once your entry is ready to present, please indicate to our Cheferees that your entry is ready. A Cheferee Captain will present to the Judge’s Tent at the end of your ten-minute time slot. If the opportunity exists to present before the end of the allotted time, you will be notified when to proceed.

•   After you present your dish, you will leave the Presentation Tent and will proceed to the video booth where you will introduce yourself, describe your dish and share your personality!. Under no circumstances are you to indicate your dish to any judge during the judging process, or your dish will be eliminated from the competition.

• Each entry will be evaluated on its own and by its own merits using the E.A.T. methodology.