On behalf of HP Hood LLC, we invite you to participate in the 2010 Hood® New England Dairy Cook-Off™ to be held in Portland, Maine, at the Ocean Gateway Terminal on October 30th. It will be a spirited competition in celebration of Hood’s superior line of dairy products. Recipes submitted will compete against the best original dairy recipes in New England, so put your best dish out there! The recipe should be easy to prepare and cook while producing big results and flavor.

There are five categories in which you may submit a recipe to compete in the Cook-Off:

• Breakfast/Brunch
• Lunch/Dinner (Entrée)
• Soups/Chowders
• Appetizers/Side Dishes
• Dessert

You must use one or more eligible Hood products in the creation of your original recipe. You may only use the Hood brand.

Eligible products for the Hood New England Dairy Cook-Off include: Hood Milk, Hood Simply Smart® Milk, Hood Cream, Hood Sour Cream, Hood Cottage Cheese, Hood Country Creamer®, Hood EggNog, and Hood Calorie Countdown®.

Entry is free and is open to everyday home cooks residing within the six New England states - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. For the five categories listed previously, a representative from each of the six New England states will be selected as a semifinalist. A winner from each of these categories will be chosen to compete at the televised head-to-head Cook-Off event later that same day for the $10,000 Grand Prize.