Just poking fun as usual.
The less faxes, scans and greasy papers the better. 
Seriously though, MS Word, Publisher and PowerPoint were suggestions made to me. Even my brainstorming notes had to be on their internal page making tool where pasting into and copying from mucks up the formatting. I tried adding a MD object but couldn’t edit it afterwards. Again, I will see on Monday what I have to work with.
That said, your concise summary is what I have been thinking about. My first task is to draft a document briefly introducing the project and giving instructions on how to submit a recipe (for consideration).
It would be great if you could flesh out some of this. I would love to learn from you and other people because no matter how experienced I am (or not) I am just one person with limited perspective.