Is Your Recipe Worth $250,000?
Presented by
Temple Street Productions
Date: February 26, 2011
Time: 08:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Price range: Free
FREE
Food Network Canada is on the hunt to find the best recipe in Canada for their new TV series ‘Recipe to Riches’. Come on down and present your favorite original recipe to our panel of professional judges for a chance to compete for $250,000 and have your recipe turned into a President’s Choice food item. Register online at www.recipetoriches.ca.
For more information contact:
Phone: 416-580-0204
Address:
Hyatt Regency Hotel
370 King Street West
King and Spadina
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Press Release
Shaw Media’s Food Network Canada and Temple Street Productions Announce New Competitive Reality Television Series Recipe to Riches
National Casting Call Opens Today
Series to Premiere on Food Network Canada and Global in Fall 2011
TORONTO, Jan. 17 /CNW/ – Temple Street Productions and Shaw Media confirmed today that they will produce and broadcast a brand new Canadian competitive reality TV series, Recipe to Riches. The new original series gives ordinary Canadians with extraordinary recipes a once-in-a-lifetime shot to exhibit their talent on TV with the possibility of their recipe making it onto the shelves of select Loblaw Companies Limited (“Loblaw”) grocery stores across the country. The national casting call for Recipe To Riches begins today with information available at www.recipetoriches.ca.
The show will embark on a cross-country tour and will be looking for Canada’s best recipes in seven different food categories that range from appetizers to entrees to desserts. The winners of each category will receive a $25,000 cash prize and will have their recipe developed into a President’s Choice® branded product available in select Loblaw grocery stores across the country. Canadians will vote for the best of the best among the category winners, and the winner will take home the grand prize of $250,000 – the largest cash prize in Canadian reality show history.
“Recipe to Riches ups the ante of reality food programming in Canada,” say David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, Co-Presidents of Temple Street Productions. “We are offering Canadian food enthusiasts an opportunity to share their most delicious recipes with the entire country.”
“We’re thrilled to be working with Temple Street Productions to bring Canadians a completely new kind of series that will offer a strong coviewing experience for families across the country,” says Barb Williams, Senior Vice President of Content for Shaw Media. “There is a strong appetite among Canadian viewers for this kind of format and no shortage of culinary talent to be showcased.”
Participants will compete in one of seven culinary categories including:
- Appetizers
- Sweet & Savoury Snacks (including squares, bars, cookies, tarts, clusters, brittle and crisps)
- Cakes (including cheesecakes)
- Sweet Pies (including cobblers, crisps and crumbles)
- Savoury Pies (including shepherd’s pie, meat pies, pizza)
- Entrées (freezable)
- Frozen Treats (including ice cream, sorbet, gelato)
Interested participants are encouraged to register for their audition city, date and time at www.recipetoriches.ca. Details of the competition rules are also available on the website.
The cross-Canada search for our nation’s best recipes begins in Halifax on February 5 and ends in Toronto on February 26th. Canadians are invited to participate in open calls at the following cities:
Halifax: February 5
Vancouver: February 12
Montreal: February 19
Toronto: February 26
Recipe to Riches is produced by Temple Street Productions in association with Food Network Canada.
About Temple Street Productions
Temple Street Productions is an award-winning independent production and distribution company based in Toronto, Canada. A selection of Temple Street’s past and present projects include: Being Erica (CBC, SOAPnet), Wingin’ It (Family Channel, CBBC) Billable Hours (Global, Showcase), Canada’s Next Top Model (CTV), How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? (CBC), Queer As Folk (Showtime, Showcase) and Darcy’s Wild Life (NBC, Discovery Kids, Family Channel).
About Shaw Media
Shaw Media is a diversified communications and media company, providing consumers with broadband cable television, High-Speed Internet, Digital Phone, telecommunications services (through Shaw Business Solutions), satellite direct-to-home services (through Shaw Direct) and engaging programming content (through Shaw Media). Shaw serves 3.4 million customers, including 1.8 million Internet subscribers and over 1.0 million Digital Phone customers, through a reliable and extensive network, which comprises 625,000 kilometres of fibre. Shaw Media includes the second largest conventional television network in Canada, Global Television and 19 specialty networks including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, History Television and Showcase. Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX – SJR.B, NYSE – SJR). FOOD NETWORK is a trademark of Television Food Network G.P.; used with permission. President’s Choice® is a registered trademark of Loblaws Inc. used with permission.
For further information:
media@recipetoriches.ca