Dream Up a Stellar Recipe Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

ELIGIBILITY: The Night Harvest “Dream Up a Stellar Recipe” Contest (“Contest”) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, who are 21 years of age or older at time of entry. California residents may enter to compete for recognition, not prizes. Entries from professional chefs, chefs in training or culinary professionals (any person who has ever been paid by an unrelated person to prepare food) will not be considered. Void where prohibited by law. Officers, directors and employees of Night Harvest by R.H. Phillips (“Sponsor”), its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensed alcoholic beverage retailers and wholesalers, and other alcoholic beverage licensees, advertising and production agencies, electronic media firm, De Cecco PMI, Sweepstakes Consulting, LLC, and members of their immediate families and those living in the same household are not eligible to participate. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply.

TO ENTER:

1. Create a pasta recipe using any De Cecco pasta product and your favorite fresh ingredient(s). The recipe must list all ingredients in exact common U.S. household measurements, preparation instructions and cooking times. Recipes must be the original work of the contestant, may not have won previous awards, may not have been previously published and must not infringe any third-party rights.
2. Tell us which Night Harvest wine pairs best with your recipe and why in 25 words or less.
3. Complete the online entry form found at www.nightharvest.com or print the entry form for submittal via mail.
4. Submit your recipe, wine pairing suggestion, completed entry form and a recent photo of yourself online at www.nightharvest.com between 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) on 1/1/08 and 11:59 p.m. PT on 4/30/08 or via mail to: Night Harvest Pasta Contest, PO Box 25309, Rochester, NY 14625-0309 to be postmarked by 4/30/08 and received by 5/6/08. Limit of one entry per person or email address. TN residents may not enter online. If more than one entry is received from the same person or email address, only the most current submission will be acknowledged.

JUDGING: Winners will be determined by or before 5/31/08 by an independent panel of judges under the supervision of Chef Manzare of Zuppa in San Francisco. Entries will be judged by (a) taste (50%), (b) appearance (20%), (c) originality (10%), (d) ease of preparation (10%), and (e) wine pairing to recipe suggestion (10%). The top five recipes will be prepared by Chef Manzare and blind tasted by the judging panel to determine the ranking of the five winners. In the event of a tie, the tied entries will be re-judged by an additional judge who will serve as a tie-breaker using the same criteria as outlined herein. In the event that more than one contestant submits the same recipe, only the first entry received will be judged. All prizes may not be awarded in the event an insufficient number of entries are received that meet the minimum standards established by the judges.

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY: By submitting a recipe in this contest (“recipe”), you hereby grant sponsor an irrevocable nonexclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right and license to use, display, publicly perform, modify, reproduce, publish, distribute, make derivative works of, sublicense and otherwise commercially and non-commercially exploit your recipe and all copyright, trade secret, trademark or other intellectual property rights therein, in any manner or medium now existing or hereafter developed, including but not limited to print, film or electronic storage devices, without separate compensation to or permission by you or any other person or entity. You hereby represent and warrant that (a) you have all necessary right, power and authority to grant the license set forth herein to your recipe and (b) your recipe does not violate, misappropriate or infringe any copyright, trade secret, trademark or other intellectual property right of any other person or entity. You will take, at Sponsor’s expense, any further action, including without limitation execution of affidavits and other documents, reasonably requested by Sponsor to effect, perfect or confirm the license granted to Sponsor to your recipe as set forth herein. In exchange for the license to your recipe, if published, used and/or posted on Sponsor’s site, said site will include your first name and last initial in conjunction with such publication, posting or use. By submitting a recipe and, if applicable, your photograph, you hereby grant Sponsor the right to use your name and likeness in connection with the publication, use or posting of your recipe. You will include your name and telephone number with your recipe so that Sponsor can contact you if Sponsor has any questions about your recipe; however, only your first name and last initial will be published with your recipe if so indicated by you on your recipe.

PRIZES AND APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES (“ARV”): First Prize (1): $1,000 cash; Second Prize (1): $500 cash; Third Prize (1): $250 cash; Fourth Prize (1): $100 cash; Fifth Prize (1): $50 cash. Each winner will also be awarded five pounds of De Cecco Pasta ($7.50 ARV each). Total ARV of all prizes: $1,937.50. Prizes do not include alcohol. Any expenses not mentioned above are the winner’s responsibility. Winners and their winning recipes will be published at www.nightharvest.com.

WINNERS will be notified by mail and may be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release, which must be returned within 14 days of the date on the notification or a runner-up will be determined. Any prize notification or prize returned as undeliverable will be awarded to a runner-up. No substitution for prize, unless at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Prize is not transferable or redeemable for cash. All federal and local taxes are the winner’s responsibility. Prize acceptance constitutes permission (except where prohibited) to use winner’s name, photographs, likeness and winning recipe for advertising and publicity purposes without additional compensation.

GENERAL: Sponsor and its agents are not responsible for any liability associated with the acceptance or use of or inability to use a prize. Sponsor and its agents are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, incomplete, illegible or postage-due entries or Internet technical, hardware, software, telephone, or transmission failures of any kind, which may limit a person’s ability to enter the sweepstakes. Sponsor and its agents are not responsible for any injury or damage to entrants’ or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from entering or downloading any materials in the sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or suspend advertising the sweepstakes on the Internet should a computer virus, unauthorized intervention or other cause corrupt the integrity or proper conduct of the promotion. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant found to be disrupting the operation of the sweepstakes or its web site. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of any online entrant, entrant will be deemed the individual named on the online entry form. No transfer or assignment of entries is permitted. Entries become the sole property of the Sponsor. For a winners list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Night Harvest Pasta Recipe Winners List, PO Box 25309, Rochester, NY 14625-0309.

SPONSOR: Night Harvest by R.H. Phillips, Esparto, CA.