Celebrity chef Bobby Flay teams with winery for recipe contest

 Columbia Crest Winery and celebrity chef Bobby Flay are looking for your best creative culinary ideas in the “Flayvors of Washington” video recipe contest.  The winner will have the opportunity to cook one-on-one with Flay, as well as enjoy a prize package valued at more than $5,000.  The contest, which launches April 13, 2009, will be hosted on Food Network’s Web site, FoodNetwork.com.

In its second year, the “Flayvors of Washington” contest challenges food and wine lovers to create and submit an original recipe inspired by Columbia Crest wines and utilizing ingredients from Washington state; only this time, entries must also include a unique two-minute video showcasing the dish.  The entries will be posted on FoodNetwork.com, where consumers will be able to view and rate them.; Flay will review the top-10 consumer-rated entries and as many as five entries chosen by Columbia Crest, selecting his top-two favorites as finalists.

The finalists will be flown to New York for a special “face-off” event where they will prepare and present their dishes, along with wine pairings, to a panel of judges that will include Flay and a Columbia Crest winemaker. The judges will score the dishes on a range of criteria to determine a winner.

The contest will begin on April 13, 2009, and all entries must be submitted by June 8, 2009. To submit an entry or find out more about the “Flayvors of Washington” contest, visit www.foodnetwork.com/columbiacrest beginning April 13.