Slow Food Speakeasy Cocktail Contest: Win a Trip to Turin Italy for Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto

Local bartenders and mixologists (professional AND amateur)! Here's a chance to show your regional pride and cocktail skill, AND potentially win a trip to Turin, Italy for Slow Food's October Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto.

Slow Food USA is running a cocktail contest, open for entries until April 30. The full rules can be found at this link, but the gist: make a cocktail that stars a Pacific Northwest region's Ark of Taste ingredient, embodies our local flavor, is delicious, can be made "party ready." and is good, clean, and fair for all.

Twelve finalists will be selected, and from there, online voting will choose the four winners, who will win the trips to Turin for the October 23-27 Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto.

Click here to see our local Pacific Northwest ingredients. Maybe something sweetened with Alaskan Birch Syrup? A cordial made from Black Republican Cherry? An oyster shooter with our own Olympia Native Oyster? (Also note American Rye Whiskey is on the "Nationwide" list so it might be up for grabs (if you have questions about the rules and acceptable ingredients, please email speakeasy@slowfoodusa.org).