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If you’ve got a great recipe for a traditional Mexican dish, you’d better hurry: the deadline for submissions to the “Recetas de mi tierra” cookbook contest is this Friday. The National Museum of Mexican Art is holding the contest to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and winners will receive a copy of the cookbook, not to mention “their place in history.” Contest guidelines can be found on the museum’s Web site.
Chicago’s inaugural Pizza Fest kicks off Saturday at noon on the 2300 block of N. Racine and continues until 10 PM –Sunday it starts at the same time but ends at 8 PM. In addition to the requisite pizza for sale, the festival will feature live music, pizza competitions, acrobatic pizza dough tossing (courtesy of the U.S. Pizza Team), wine tasting, and “Cornhole” (better known as beanbag toss) tournaments. Suggested gate donation is $5. The Botanic Garden’s weekly Garden Chef series, which includes free cooking demonstrations in the open-air kitchen of the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden, this week features Heather Terhune from Atwood Cafe on Saturday and Doug D’Avico from Trattoria No. 10 on Sunday. Demonstrations are at 1:30 and 2:30 PM both days.
