50 American Food Brands Featured in Food Champ Search

ORANGE BEACH, Ala., June 19, 2017 -- Do you or someone you know have a recipe that’s worth $100,000? Think you can prove it? Then here’s your chance! The World Food Championships has launched a no-charge, online recipe contest to find America’s next Ultimate Food Champion.

Now celebrating its 6th Anniversary, WFC invites hundreds of qualified food competitors each November to Orange Beach, Alabama to a winner-taste-all event to crown the best chef or home cook in the world. At stake? Hundreds of thousands of dollars as contestants fight their way through ten categories of delicious challenges.

To enter, each contestant has to earn their way into the competition. Many do this through live food qualifiers throughout the world. But this year, the WFC has launched Taste of America, its largest online challenge ever.

TOA allows cooks from coast to coast to utilize great local and regional brands to create eye-popping Instagram recipe dishes for a chance one of the event’s coveted Golden Tickets. For example, brands like Michigan Apples, Bolner’s Fiesta Products, Bill E’s Bacon, Wampler’s Farm Sausage, and Burgess Brothers are just a few of the key ingredients that aspiring chefs or home cooks can use to earn their way into the contest, which features the world’s largest outdoor kitchen arena.

The contest will qualify up to 250 people, all of whom will then have a chance to win $10,000 in a WFC Category of choice and the ultimate prize of $100,000 at the event’s Final Table. To find out more about how the contest works, click here for rules, deadlines and the 50 brands being featured.

About the World Food Championships
The World Food Championships (www.WorldFoodChampionships.com) features hundreds of culinary champions seeking food fame and fortune. Scheduled for Nov. 8-14, 2017 at The Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama, WFC features 10 categories of competition: Barbecue, Bacon, Burger, Chicken, Chili, Dessert, Sandwich, Seafood, Steak and Chef. Now in its sixth season, WFC awards hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and prizes and has been featured in three major cable TV series over the past five years. Follow World Food Championships on Twitter (@WorldFoodChamp), and Facebook and Instagram (@WorldFoodChampionships).

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Gabriella Farley
World Food Championships
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