27th National Beef Cook-Off
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With her recipe for Nuevo Chipotle Beef in Butternut Squash Boats, amateur home cook Christine Riccitelli of Incline Village, Nev., last night won the 27th National Beef Cook-Off® and the $50,000 “Best of Beef” grand prize.Riccitelli’s dish topped recipes from 26 other finalists (including six children) from across the country. The contestants were competing for $110,000 in prize money.
The national beef cook-off is funded in part by the beef checkoff and managed by the American National Cattlewomen Inc., on behalf of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. Now held on a bi-annual basis, the cook-off always stirs up a lot of media interest across the country. This year’s competition also featured a beef seminar for reporters that offered a “farm to fork” theme – demonstrating for food editors how beef moves from producer operations to delicious prepared recipes, such as those featured in this cook-off.
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The Beef Checkoff Program was established as part of the 1985 Farm Bill. The checkoff assesses $1 per head on the sale of live domestic and imported cattle, in addition to a comparable assessment on imported beef and beef products. States retain up to 50 cents on the dollar and forward the other 50 cents per head to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board, which administers the national checkoff program, subject to USDA approval.
Funded by the Beef Checkoff.
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