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Maine Fare- Celebrating the Bounty of Maine! Is a three day event held each year in the mid-coast area with tastings, book signings, cooking classes and demonstrations, great food and beverages of all kinds, and over thirty of the best chefs in the state getting together to show off the bounty of food in Maine. If you are a foodie, then this is the place to be the third weekend in September, Friday 9/14, Saturday 9/15, and Sunday 9/16/2007.

Originally this event started out as the 2005 Camden Food and Wine Festival but it grew so rapidly that the focus had to widen as well. Now Maine Fare is coordinated by Maine Festivals and Events, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to preserving, protecting, and sharing the cultural resources of Maine through a wide range of educational programs and special events.

As much as you'd love to twirl around the kitchen either 1) without ever making a mess to begin with or 2) have an assistant follow you around cleaning up your spills as they happen, we know that that kind of fantasy just doesn't exist. Kitchens are supposed to get messy.

Bounty (the paper towel people) knows that, and is giving away a $30,000 kitchen makeover to a lucky winner who enters their contest, the One Sheet Challenge. All you're supposed to do is put a sheet of Bounty Paper Towel to the test on a mess in your kitchen, then share the details at www.onesheetchallenge.com. Go ahead! It never hurts to enter! (I'd do it myself except that I live in a rented apartment!)