Rules for Judges

Purpose: a fun, educational and community driven activity that promotes the ecological and economic benefit of locally caught seafood.

Concept: two (or three) local chefs compete.Each can only bring their favorite cooking vessels/utensils, presentation plates and three of their favorite ingredients. Once there, they’ll find out about the secret seafood they will be using, given $25 and 15 minutes to use the event as their pantry, and then an hour to prepare, cook and plate their dish.Participants must make adequate food for two judges and the emcee(s) to taste as well as offer a small tastings to the public.

Judging Instructions

It would be great if judges could arrive as early as possible – preferably at the start of the event so they can be part of the whole event.

The chefs should be done with cooking in an hour.

Tickets will be passed out to the public for tastings.

Each dish will be judged based on three criteria:

• Taste - 10 points
• Originality - 5 points
• Presentation - 5 points

Judges can discuss the dishes with each other. In case of a tie, a member of the public or the emcee will act as the tie-breaker. If there is still a tie, we’ll toss a coin!

Scorecards will be available when you arrive.

Please send a brief profile to niaz@namanet.org so we can introduce you properly.

Our event emcee will introduce you and engage the judges and chefs in the event.

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