Welcome to Golden Eye Chef 2022
an International Online Cooking Contest for the Blind by Antardrishti

Who can participate?

• Anyone, who is legally blind and having a valid certificate of blindness can participate in this contest, irrespective of location, gender, language, religion, race.
• Contestant must be a 18 years or older on August 16, 2022.

How to Participate?

• Read rules and regulations carefully
• Shoot a cooking video of yourself preparing the dish at home. Save your video. Remember, file name of your entry must have your Name and Dish Name. (for example – Contestant-Dish_Name.mov)
• Download Entry Form, Fill and email us at goldeneyechef@antardrishti.org along with your entry video and disability certificate.
• You can upload your video and document to any file sharing website such as drop box, wetransfer, google drive etc and share the link with us.

Golden Eye Chef 2022 – International Cooking Contest for the Blind. Entry Form

All the participants are requested to carefully read, understand and agree with the Terms & Conditions prior to entry because they form a legally binding agreement with respect to this Contest.

I have read the rules and regulations of Golden Eye Chef International Cooking Contest 2022 and agree to abide by them. I also certify the authenticity of the information filled in the entry form.

Download Entry Form

Registration and Selection

Interested contestants need to submit recipe video of their cooking along with entry form. Videos will undergo an initial scrutiny by the team. Upon approval, contestants will get invitation for online interview.

15 September 2022 is the last date of Entry submission

Entry Fee:

• There is no entry fee to participate in this Contest.

Language:

• The language of communication in the video is English or Hindi.
• If you are not comfort with English or Hindi, you can take help of interpreter to explain your video presentation.

Venue: Online

TASK: Cook one healthy dish as per your choice.

In your video you must demonstrate

• Your recipe must be quick and easy to prepare
• Ingredients must be easily available at home

Your recipes will be judged keeping in mind the following:

• Creativity, Originality, Presentation, Flow of work plan, Nutritional Value

Recipe video narrative

Good narrative in the video is a “heart and soul” of your recipe, and is an opportunity to explain why it is meaningful for the contest. The narrative might also describe your creative experience in putting flavours and textures together to create something delicious.

What makes a good narrative?

A good narrative tells a compelling story about your recipe. It gives the jury a sense of your creative process and what inspired you to create the dish.

The following questions can be used to guide your narrative but each question does not need to be addressed.

1. Why did you choose this dish?
2. What was your inspiration for the dish?
3. What does it mean to you?
4. Does the dish reflect your tradition?
5. Are any ingredients locally sourced?
6. Why did you combine the ingredients in the way that you did?

Rules and Regulations:

• You can submit only one recipe for the contest.
• The entries should be clearly written – List of ingredients with specific quantities to be used. Step-wise method of preparation and cooking. It must include following details.

Dish Name:
Brief description of your dish and also tell us why you are making this dish:
List your ingredients and quantities.
List your step by step preparation and cooking instructions.

• The maximum duration of the video should not exceed 15 minutes.
• Explain clearly why you chose this recipe and how it will benefit to health.
• The video must contain information about the ingredients used during cooking.
• The entire cooking process has to be clearly explained in the video.
• Dish presentation must be included.
• You can use mobile camera or any other video recorder to shoot the video, you just need to remember that video must be in landscape format /view and voice and video quality should be ok.
• You have to do the cooking at your home kitchen and use only easily available ingredients.
• Any kind of help while cooking will not be allowed.
• You can take the help of others to record the video, but, apart from dubbing, no editing will be allowed in the video. You can record video with pauses to make the most of video time.
• Save your video and text file with Name and Recipe Name.