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Who Can Enter a Food Writing Contest?

March 13, 2018 by diannejacob 6 Comments

Recently I wrote about a misstep when the head of an organization won the organization’s own food writing contest. If you haven’t read it, see  IACP Strips Winner of Cookbook of the Year Award After Outcry. 

Since then, Adam Salamone, chair of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP),  said IACP had no policy that excludes staff or board members from submitting to awards. He also said the board will create a new policy about ineligibility of staff and board.

The new winners of the IACP Cookbook of the Year and the new General category winner are announced here.

That event made me wonder how [Read more…] about Who Can Enter a Food Writing Contest?

Filed Under: Awards, Ethics Tagged With: Association of Food Journalists, entering food writing awards, IACP, James Beard Foundation, M.F.K. Fisher awards, policies on who can enter writing awards

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