Sign up for Crabfest Crabfest Chowder Cook-Off

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Do you cook amazing chowder at home? Do you feature one-of-a-kind chowder at your restaurant? If so, you’ll want to try your hand at the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival’s fourth annual Chowder Cook-Off benefiting the Captain Joseph House Foundation.

Master Chef Graham Kerr, “The Galloping Gourmet,” will preside over this event as celebrity judge and the public is invited to cast its votes for the People’s Choice Award. The competition will be from 10 a.m-2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at the Gateway Transit Center.

Fees for professional cooks are $45 for the first entry and $22 for each additional entry. Amateur cooks pay $20 for the first entry and $10 for each additional entry. The chowder recipe may be seafood, a combination of seafood and other ingredients or vegetarian.

Application materials and information can be found at www.captainjosephhousefoundation.org or www.crabfestival.org or call Tawana Borden at 683-3408 or Sam Coyle at 460-4079.

Unlimited tickets for tastes of chowder (five tastes for $10) may be purchased. Each $10 ticket includes one vote in the People’s Choice Award. Kerr will judge chowders at 12:30 p.m. and present the awards at 2 p.m.

All proceeds benefit Captain Joseph House, honoring the nations’s fallen heroes and their Gold Star veteran families.

The 15th annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival will be Friday-Sunday, Oct. 7-9, at the Port Angeles City Pier. Hours are noon-10 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday; and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.

The Captain Joseph House Foundation is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit corporation at 1108 S. Oak St., Port Angeles. Contact www.captainjosephhousefoundation.org or 460-7848. Contributions, gifts and bequests are tax deductible.

The Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival is produced by Olympic Peninsula Celebrations, a Washington nonprofit corporation, and the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce. For more information about the festival, visit www.crabfestival.org , e-mail info@crabfestival.org or call 452-6300.