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92nd Street Y Mega Bites Recipe Challenge
92nd Street Y Mega Bites Recipe Challenge
Meet the Judges
Prizes
Entry Form & Rules
Vote for Your Favorite Recipe


Turn up the heat and slice through the competition with your most tantalizing taste-pleaser. Enter an original recipe in the Mega Bites Recipe Challenge for a chance to battle it out for accolades from celebrity judges: Marc Murphy, Gael Greene, Mike Colameco, Arthur Schwartz and Rozanne Gold. Whether you're whipping up a petite amuse bouche or a delectable entrée, the only thing MEGA about your food needs to be the taste. So get cooking, get creative, and you just might land yourself in the hot-seat.

Not a culinary genius? Vote online for your favorite recipe and you can still cash in on the culinary craze!

The Quick 411:
  • Recipes must be modern Kosher. Recipes need not be Jewish in origin, but may not contain dairy and meat in the same dish, pork, certain cuts of meat or shellfish of any kind
  • Recipe must be original
  • Recipe must be cooked in 60 minutes or less
  • Finalists must be available for a publicity event on September 24, 2008 in New York City
  • One entry per contestant

    Grand Prize, Judges' Choice:
    You cooked up a fabulous recipe and hob-nobbed with fantastic foodies—now take a minute to enjoy your success, and the following prizes:

  • A full color spread in the 2009-2010 92nd Street Y Jewish Calendar and Cookbook, distributed annually to over 14,000 New Yorkers
  • Recipe appearance (or modified version) on the 92YTribeca Café menu for one (1) month
  • The opportunity to work with 92YTribeca staff to create a menu for one of their upcoming catered events
  • Roundtrip travel for two, compliments of JetBlue Airways, to any destination they serve
  • A 2-night weekend getaway, compliments of Affinia Hotels, to any of their hotels in New York or Chicago

    2nd Prize, Judges' Choice:
    Food lover's package, consisting of autographed cookbooks, dinner for two at landmarc [tribeca], backstage Food Talks passes and more!

    To learn more about Fan Favorite and Match the Judges' Choice prizes, click here.

    Click here for entry form, full contest rules and regulations.

    92nd Street Y would like to thank the following partners for their generous donation to this event:





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