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Get pickled and win a trip to Montreal

ARE you a winning pickle maker? Time to find out for sure. Home canners and amateur chefs are invited to submit their pickles for British Columbia's first pickle contest this fall.

ARE you a winning pickle maker?

Time to find out for sure. Home canners and amateur chefs are invited to submit their pickles for British Columbia's first pickle contest this fall. Judged by a panel of food writers, chefs and "pickle experts," the winner receives an allexpense paid, airfare included, trip for two to Montréal, dinner at Montréal's Dunn's Famous Restaurant Deli and pickles for life at the first western Canadian Dunn's location in Vancouver.

Dunn's Famous Restaurant Deli - the iconic Montreal smoked meat restaurant deli - serves thousands of whole pickles everyday in their Montreal restaurants. To celebrate the opening of the first Western Canadian location at Seymour and Robson in Vancouver, Dunn's is holding a province-wide pickle contest.

According to a recent release, the team behind Dunn's Famous is excited about coming to B.C. and working with local suppliers to access some of the best food ingredients in the world here. Bread for the famous Montréal smoked meat sandwiches will be baked locally in Vancouver, salmon is wild B.C. of course and the all-beef hot dogs are being made for them by a local sausage maker.

With that in mind, Dunn's Famous B.C. has partnered with British Columbia farmers' markets to bring together home canners, pickling cucumbers and local farmers.

On Saturday, Oct. 1, Vancouver area pickle pros and amateurs can drop off their pickles and recipes at the Trout Lake Farmers' Market in Vancouver. Pickles will be judged by more than 20 experts with the finalists invited to the grand pickle judging finale at Trout Lake Farmers' Market on Oct. 15.

Participants must register on the Great Big Pickle contest site, dunnsfamousbc. com/contest.php. The form should also accompany an original pickle recipe, along with no less than a total of 30 pickles in sealed glass jars, whole or whole spears pickling cucumbers only.

The judges will remain anonymous until after Oct. 1 to ensure the integrity of the contest. Pickles will be divided into identical containers and numbered to ensure a true blind tasting before being distributed to the judges located across B.C. They will judge based on flavour, presentation, taste and texture.