This Extra-Special Recipe Contest Is Big on Family Traditions

We’re teaming up with our friends at Maker’s Mark® to celebrate all the family dishes that make our tables complete with a special edition of our recipe contests—and a sweet grand-prize for the winner.

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Recipe contests have always been at the heart of Food52: We got started as a company back in 2009 based on the idea of a crowd-sourced cookbook featuring winning recipes from our community of home cooks. Over the years, recipe contests have remained an important part of our story—and an outlet for discovering a new favorite dish, like our most recent contest-winner, Greek Mahogany Potatoes.

While most of our contests invite you to share your best recipes highlighting a certain type of dish or single ingredient, our latest—Family Recipes, Reimagined, dreamed up in partnership with Maker's Mark®—is looking for a lil' something different. We're in search of recipes that are rooted in family traditions, but with a unique twist or riff that makes them all your own. And yep, that means you can submit an appetizer, main dish, dessert, cocktail, you name it.

Contest Details

Thanks for entering—this contest has now closed.

• When to enter: The contest will open on April 3, 2023 at 12:00pm EST and you'll have until April 17, 2023 at 11:59pm EST to submit your recipe.

• How to enter: Unlike our usual recipe contests, you'll enter this extra-special edition on this landing page, where you'll find a form to submit your recipe, the story behind it, and a photo of the finished dish.

• How the voting will work: The Food52 editorial team will review (and cook!) the recipes before narrowing down all the submissions to the top eight finalists. Then, the Food52 community will vote on the finalists in a bracket-style tournament via Instagram Stories on the @Food52 account until we have our grand-prize winner.

• The grand prize: The winner will receive gift card to use for a private guided tour of the Maker’s Mark Distillery, a $500 airfare gift card and $500 hotel gift card for planning the trip, a $500 prepaid debit card, and their recipe featured in our digital cookbook, A Toast to Family Ties.

For more info on how to enter, head to the contest landing page (you can also check out the full contest rules and conditions here).

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