ROCK SPRINGS — “Taste of Home” magazine’s popular cooking school is returning to Meigs County on March 16 at Meigs High School.

Doors open at 5 p.m. with preshow events planned at 5:45 p.m. and the cooking demonstration at 7 p.m. There are 700 tickets up for grabs at $15 each. Tickets go on sale Monday and can be picked up at the office of K92 FM The Frog (the show’s sponsor) in Middleport and the Meigs County Tourism Office on West Main Street in Pomeroy. Last year the show soldout and those wishing to purchase tickets are urged to do so as soon as possible.

Those attending the show will receive a gift bag from the cooking show’s national sponsors, plus two copies of the magazine which Brenda Merritt, of K92, said more than covers the price of admission. Along with additional prize drawings and food samples, around 40 local vendors will be set up in the gymnasium, demonstrating and selling their goods. Merritt said there will be new prizes this year, including a “best seat in the house” drawing for seats with the best view of the show.

This year’s show has a theme of “Fresh Picked Favorites.” According to the magazine, the “Taste of Home” Cooking School is a two and one-half hour stage demonstration of 10-12 recipes, offering “valuable” cooking tips. Merritt said this year the culinary specialist happens to be a graduate from Ohio University.

With organzing her first cooking show under her belt, Merritt said what she enjoyed most about the experience was: “It is a showcase for Meigs County. The vendors are from Meigs County and inside the gift bags we place the Meigs County Visitor’s Guide for those from outside the county.”

Merritt said last year’s soldout show saw attendees from Parkersburg, Charleston and Huntington, W.Va. and the Marietta areas.

Merritt described “Taste of Home” as the leading food magazine in the world.