Recipes will be judged on originality, taste and appearance. Deadline is Nov. 1. Entries must be main dishes and contain at least 4 ounces of white mushrooms per serving. To enter, write your name, address and phone number at the top of each recipe and mail to Mr. Food's Mushroom Contest, P.O. Box 9227, Coral Springs, Fla. 33075-9227. Winners will be announced by phone or mail by Dec. 31.
Some recipes follow to provide inspiration.
Italian Food and Wine Festival. But it didn't keep Scott Chen, owner of Empress restaurant, from slogging in from the FM 1960 area and sweeping both the judges' and the people's choice awards. The trip will have to be scheduled around his preparations for opening his new restaurant, Scott Chen's, on San Felipe at Voss, in early 1999. Chen, whose restaurant is known for Chinese and fusion cuisine, took some heat from the Italian restaurants in the cook-off, including Damian's, Ciro's, Arcodoro, Collina's, Patrenella's, Simposio Ristorante and Andiamo Carrabba's Catering. B.C. Most food historians credit Marco Polo for introducing pasta to the Western world in the Middle Ages.