Healthy Cooks contest! WIN $10,000 from Cooking Light magazine

The fabulous cooking and recipe magazine Cooking Light has launched a nationwide search to find the chef with the healthiest and most innovative cooking approach.

The contest, open to both self-taught cooks or professionally-trained chefs, launches today at www.CookingLight.com/castingcall and runs through August 14, 2010.

Entrants must submit a three-minute prep-to-plate video of a healthy, original recipe on which they will be judged. Four finalists will be chosen from the entries to compete in a live cook-off event at The Taste of Atlanta, a two-day outdoor food festival in Atlanta, GA, on October 23 and 24, 2010.

The Cooking Light judges will select the winner, who will be named the “Healthy Chef of the Year.”
The winner will receive:
--$10,000 prize package including a kitchen makeover
--a year's worth of free groceries
--the opportunity to become a contributor to Cooking Light magazine and CookingLight.com in 2011.

Any and all skill levels are welcome to enter, from home cooks to culinary school graduates. Entrants must be legal residents of the United States and 21 years or older at the time of entry. Anyone who is paid to cook for a living is not eligible to enter.

Click here to enter!

Cooking Light is the nation’s number one epicurean brand with the largest audience, most epicurean editorial and the most recipes. Founded in 1987, Cooking Light makes healthy food taste great. Each month, nearly 12 million readers turn to Cooking Light and CookingLight.com for innovative recipes; nutrition advice and food and fitness tips. Cooking Light is published by a subsidiary of Birmingham, Alabama-based Southern Progress Corporation.