Hood Cream of The Crop Cooking Competition With Chef Chris Coombs Saturday

HP Hood® is sponsoring the “Cream of the Crop” cooking competition at the Framingham Food Truck Festival, as part of MetroFest on Saturday, Sept. 20.

Participating food trucks will submit their best recipe featuring Hood Cream and a panel of esteemed judges, including Chef Chris Coombs, will choose a winner at 3 p.m. to receive a $1,000 cash prize, along with the title as Hood Cream’s “Cream of the Crop” champion.

Coombs is chef/owner of Boston-area award-winning restaurants Boston Chops, dbar and Deuxave.

“I am honored to be a part of this competition and share my expertise with consumers, event attendees, and fellow chefs,” said Coombs. “I love cooking with Hood Cream in my restaurants and am intrigued to see what delicious recipes the food truck chefs will create.”

In addition to the competition, Chef Coombs will be conducting meet and greets, answering questions, providing cooking tips and leading short cooking demonstrations.

Here is the schedule for Saturday:

• 11 a.m. – Judges begin tasting dishes entered in the Cream of the Crop competition
  
• noon – Judging ends
• 1:30 p.m. – First live demo and meet and greet with Chef Coombs and radio personality Candy O’Terry
• 2:30 p.m. – Second live demo and meet and greet with Chef Coombs and O’Terry
• 3 p.m. – winner of the “Cream of the Crop” competition revealed

Hood Cream will feature a fun and interactive booth including complimentary coffee with Hood Cream, photo booth, prize wheel and giveaways on Saturday too.

More than two dozen food trucks will be attendance for the first-ever MetroFest Saturday, Sept 20 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bowditch Field in Framingham. The event, organized by the MetroWest Visitors Bureau, happens rain or shine.

Admission is $5 for guests ages 13 and up, a$2 for children ages 5-12, and free for children ages 4 and under. Pre-order tickets by clicking here.

For more information on the Framingham Food Truck Festival, and a list of the 2 dozen trucks attending, click here.

Fans are invited to join in on the fun by sharing their favorite recipes featuring Hood Cream on Twitter to @HPHood using the hashtags #AlwaysHoodCreamSweeps, #FTFNE and #FramFTF

Fans can also enter the Hood Cream Food Truck Festivals of New England Sweepstakes for a chance to win a Hood Cream VIP prize pack including two tickets to a 2014 festival, $100 gift card and more. For more information and to read official contest rules, visit Hood’s Facebook page.

“This is a great opportunity for Hood Cream to take the growing food truck trend to the next level with Chef Chris Coombs,” said Lynne Bohan, vice president of communications and government affairs at Hood in a press release. “We look forward to the creative ways the participating food truck chefs will integrate Hood Cream into their recipes and show consumers how easy it is to create restaurant-quality dishes at home.”

Hood Cream is the title sponsor of the Food Truck Festivals of New England.

Founded in 1846, Hood is one of the largest branded dairy operators in the United States.