Get set for the big cook-off

Friday, July 16, 2004

The 17th Annual Chili & Cayman Cook Off is scheduled for the first time to take place this Saturday at Safehaven opposite Seven Mile Beach.

It will feature the ultimate raffle of the year, with the 2004 yellow Chevrolet SSR Convertible Truck as the grand prize.

The cost for Chili & Cayman Cook off and raffle tickets is CI $25 each.

Tickets can be bought from CITA member restaurants and outside First Caribbean International Bank, Foster’s Food Fair Airport and Strand locations.

The ticket includes admission into the Chili & Cayman Cook off and an automatic entry into the Taste of Cayman Ultimate Raffle.

Other vacation prizes include a trip for two to London on British Airways, Air Jamaica Escape for two, Little Cayman Getaway for two on Island Air, and weekend accommodations at Pirates Point.

The proceeds from the event go to the Lighthouse School, the Pines Retirement Home, the Sunrise Training Center, and many other local charities.

In addition, the event raises money for the Cayman Islands helps Tourism Association Scholarship Fund, which Caymanians to pursue a career in the tourism industry.

Reader comments:

• I am very disappointed in the results of the chili cook-off this year. We go every year, and this year my family spent 2 hours walking around that event sampling everyone's chili and talking to others doing the same. The three teams that placed made sub par chili and were told so repeatedly by people sampling. The 5 o'clock crew and the Z99/Rooster teams were by far the best. To automatically give it to the teams that came from the restaurants and hotels is both disingenuous and insulting to everyone competing - Jerome Bush

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