4th Annual Fish Alaska Recipe Contest

Prizes totaling
OVER $16,000

How It Works:
One finalist is chosen for each month February through May. Then a cook-off is held on September 28, 2008 at the Kincaid Grill in Anchorage, Alaska. Each finalist will prepare a small serving for each of the judges and a larger sampling for guests. Recipes will be judged on the following criteria: originality, taste, visual appeal, texture and nutritional content. Each of the four finalists will receive a prize package for participating with one grand prize winner selected.

How To Enter:
You can enter on our website, www.fishalaskamagazine.com, or type or print your full name, address, zip code, daytime phone number, email address, along with your recipe’s name, ingredients and instructions, on one side only of a 8.5 x 11-inch plain white paper and mail to Fish Alaska magazine Reader Recipe Contest, PO Box 113403, Anchorage, Alaska 99511. There are no limits on the number of entries you may submit, but each recipe must be original, unpublished and entered on a separate sheet of paper. Mailed entries must be postmarked no later than May 25 and received no later than May 31, 2008.

Entries must include the following:

• A note with how you came up with the recipe
• A list of ingredients with exact quantities in order of use.
• Directions in paragraph form including cookware type, cookware size, cooking time and temperature, and number and size of servings.

Enter one of the following ways:

• Type or print your name, address, zip code, daytime phone number, e-mail address, along with your recipe's name, ingredients and instructions, on one side only of an 8.5x11-inch plain white paper and mail to Fish Alaska magazine Recipe Contest, PO Box 113403, Anchorage, AK 99511.

Click HERE to read about our 2007 contest.

Click HERE to read about our 2006 contest.

Click HERE to read about our 2005 contest.

CONTEST RULES
To enter: No purchase required. Purchasing will not increase your chance of winning. To enter online, visit our website at www.fishalaskamagazine.com or click the online entry form link above. Alternately, type or print your name, address, zip code, daytime phone number, e-mail address, along with your recipe's name, ingredients and instructions, on one side only of an 8.5 x 11-inch plain white paper and mail to Fish Alaska magazine Reader Recipe Contest, PO Box 113403, Anchorage, AK 99511. There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit, but each recipe must be original, unpublished and entered on a separate sheet of paper. Mailed entries must be postmarked no later than May 25 and received no later than May 31, 2008. Entries received online must be received by Midnight, Alaska standard time, May 31, 2008. Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. Sponsors are not responsible for lost, late, mutilated, or misdirected mail.

By entering this contest you grant Fish Alaska magazine the right to edit, adapt, copyright, and publish any or all entries and use these entries in any media form without attribution or further compensation. Each entry must include a note with how you came up with the recipe. Recipes must list ingredients and exact quantities in order of use, followed by directions in paragraph form (including cookware type, cookware size, cooking time and temperature and number and size of servings). Monthly finalists will be notified by the third week of the month after the month for which they’ve won. Any finalist who cannot be easily located at the phone number and email address provided on the entry form or who is unable to attend the final judging will forfeit their chance to compete. All entries become the property of Fish Alaska magazine. All finalists will be required to sign a statement of originality and eligibility, a release of liability, and a grant of ownership rights of the recipe to Fish Alaska magazine.

Judges’ Bios

Governor Sarah Palin made history on Dec. 4, 2006 when she took office. As the 11th governor of Alaska, she is the first woman to hold the office.

Since taking office, her top priorities have been resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development.

Prior to her election as governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council and two terms as the mayor/manager of Wasilla. She has served as chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska's most valuable non-renewable resources: oil and gas. She was elected by her peers to serve as president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.

Sarah Heath Palin arrived in Alaska with her family in 1964, when her parents came to teach school in Skagway. She received a bachelor of science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987. Palin, who graduated from Wasilla High School in 1982, has lived in Skagway, Eagle River and Wasilla.

She is married to Todd Palin, a lifelong Alaskan, a production operator on the North Slope and a four-time champion of the Iron Dog, the world's longest snowmachine race.

Todd and Sarah commercial fish in Bristol Bay with their children – Track, Bristol, Willow and Piper. Through Todd’s Yup'ik grandmother, Alaska’s Native heritage plays an important role in their family. Track enlisted in the U.S. Army on Sept. 11, 2007.

Palin is a lifetime member of the NRA and enjoys hunting, fishing, Alaska history, and all that Alaska's great outdoors has to offer.

Chef Al Levinsohn was born in Southern California and raised in the Seattle area before moving to Alaska. He began his career working for Seattle area Hotels in the late 70’s where he was promoted to his first Sous Chef position at age 18. With Al’s passion for food, the outdoors and desire to move to Alaska his dream became reality when he began working at the Crow’s Nest Restaurant in 1984 under the direction of Chef Jens Haagen Hansen. In 1986 at the age of 23 Chef Al was hired on as Executive Chef to open the Clarion Hotel Anchorage. During his 8 year tenure with the Clarion and Regal Alaskan Hotel, Chef Al was given a great opportunity to excel his culinary & management experience. In 1994 Chef Al moved on to open the Alyeska Prince Hotel and Resort as Executive Sous Chef. In 1996, two years after the Hotel opened Al was offered the task of developing the menu concept, and implementing the kitchen set up of Anchorage’s flagship brew pub, the Glacier Brewhouse. In The summer of 1996 after opening and operating the Glacier Brewhouse, Chef Al was soon given an opportunity to return to Alyeska as the Executive Chef overseeing all the resorts food outlets including the famed four Diamond restaurant The Seven Glaciers. In January of 2003 chef Al’s dream of having his own restaurant came true, opening the Kincaid Grill .Through out Chef Al’s career he has built up his list of accomplishments to include the following;

• 5 time AAA Four Diamond Award, Seven Glaciers Restaurant
• Professional cooking experience in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok & Pusan Korea.
• Certified food and beverage Executive through the American Hotel Motel Association
• Television appearances on local channels as well as the food network
• Guest Chef at the James Beard House in New York City 1999
• Gold medal winner, Alaska seafood challenge 1989
• Bronze medal winner, National Seafood Challenge Charleston S.C.1989
• Two time winner, one pot cookery competition U.A.A.1998,1999
• Chef Rotisseur Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs 1998

http://www.kincaidgrill.com 

Marcus Weiner, Publisher of Fish Alaska magazine

Marcus Weiner is the Publisher of Fish Alaska magazine. He loves to catch fish and can be found at least once a week eating them raw at the sushi restaurant near the Fish Alaska office. The recipe contest is an annual treat, both getting the chance to sample the delicious dishes, but to then create them from the ample supply of halibut, king, silver and sockeye salmon as well as rockfish and lingcod that the Fish Alaska crew catches for the winter.

Melissa Norris is the Publisher of Fish Alaska magazine. With her love for fishing and cooking, Melissa conceived of the annual Fish Alaska magazine recipe contest. She enjoys being a judge for the contest, getting to taste first hand the delectable creations that the finalists prepare. There is always a good chance that the winning recipe dish will turn up at the company BBQ.

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