Oregon's Finest Blackberry Pie Contest

Oregon State Fair
August 31, 2010 - 4:00pm
Americraft Center Stage (Formerly the Jackman-Long Building)

Join us at the Oregon State Fair to celebrate the Oregon berry harvest! Bring a pie to enter or just sit back and watch the fun. Berry prizes for 1st,2nd & 3rd place winners. Audience door prize drawings every 10 minutes from 4pm on. Chef cooking demo and tasting of gourmet Oregon berry recipes. Fun for everyone!

It wouldn’t be summer without Oregon blackberries and we are looking for your very best recipe for a pie made with Oregon blackberries including Kotata’s, Marionberries, Silvan’s any type of blackberry from right here in Oregon.

This is a fun event so bring your friends down to the Fair to cheer you on as you compete for bragging rights and big prizes. There will be fantastic Oregon berry gift baskets for the first, second and third place winners. Audience members will be given door prize tickets and we will be drawing over 25 winners during the judging, so you can win big even if you don’t bake!

As if that was not enough, you get in free to the State Fair with your pie entry! Just show your pie at the entry gate and tell them you are entering “Oregon’s Finest Blackberry Pie Contest”

Celebrity judges will be on hand to evaluate the pies including:

• Linda Strand - ORBC Commissioner, National Sales Manager Columbia Empire Farms, President of YourNW
• Chloe Houser - Promotions Producer for PDX TV & FOX 12 Oregon, On air personality for PDX TV Reports and FOX 12 Oregon
• Katherine Miller - Editor of The Oregonian - Food Day section
• Morgan Ennis - Owner - Immortal Pie & Larder

Cooking demonstrations of new and delicious ways to use Oregon berries will be given by

• Andy Arndt - Executive Chef - Aquariva
• Sarah House - Pastry Chef – Aquariva
  

Oregon’s Finest Blackberry Pie Contest is sponsored by the Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission, Your NW and Willamette Valley Fruit Company.