Jaak,
Can you pass this on to your DC Estonian list ? ChiliFest 2006 - Estonia's 2nd Annual chili cook-off - was a success. The winner has been invited to represent Estonia at the International Chili Society's (ICS) 40th Annual World Championship Chili Cook Off this October 6-8 in Omaha, Nebraska. Read about it here :
http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/353517 (the print version has much more info)
and here :
http://www.chilicookoff.com/NewsDetail.asp?NewsID=32
The only problem is we need to raise some money to help sponsor the team of two from the winners. The chef, Rafael Ahmedov (mother is Estonian, father Azerbaijani) works at KN Restoran in the Merchants House Hotel here in Old Town. They are willing to pay half for the team of two but that still leaves us about $2000 shy (for plane tickets, hotel, insurance, expenses, etc).
We have people trying to scare up ......
...... some sponsorship from local Estonian companies but in case they don't come through (we're trying to educate them on what chili even is so interest isn't too high), I was wondering if anyone on your DC Estonian email list might work at a company or know of one who would be interested in helping either with the whole sum or part of it. This is a great opportunity to promote Estonia (and the sponsor) in middle America flyover country. I know the people at the ICS are excited about publicizing it.
If anyone is interested, please have them contact me at [email protected].
äitah !
Chuck
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