Does My Blog Look Tacky in This?
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Office Surprise
A delicious peach cobbler with a surprise ingredient perfect for those end-of-the-year tax season blues.
Megan of I Heart Bacon and Eliz/Deepfry of YUM are hosting a virtual dinner party based on dishes from the 40s through the 70s. As part of her post Megan listed these links to photographs from cookbooks from the period:
http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/czarina.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knudsen2/1.html
A couple of years ago one of my cooking friends found some similar links and several of us vied to see who could come up with the most ridiculous food photos.
So I suggested to Megan that as an adjunct to their virtual dinner party we hold a contest for tackiest food photo -- hence Does My Blog Look Tacky in This?
If you want to participate, here's the way it works. Take a really tacky photograph of your contribution to Megan's and Eliz's party and come up with a suitable caption. Send me a copy of the photo with:
Your name:
The name of the dish (may be ficticious):
A description of the dish (may be ficticious):
A link to your actual contribution to the dinner party:
You don't need to publish the tacky photo on your blog unless you want to.
Megan, Eliz, and I will judge the entries based on:
How unappetizing the photo is
Cleverness (inappropriateness) of props
Cleverness (inappropriateness) of name and description
Entries are due by or on Aug. 13. The winner will receive a cookbook (yet to be determined) published during the period in question.
Office Surprise
A delicious peach cobbler with a surprise ingredient perfect for those end-of-the-year tax season blues.
Megan of I Heart Bacon and Eliz/Deepfry of YUM are hosting a virtual dinner party based on dishes from the 40s through the 70s. As part of her post Megan listed these links to photographs from cookbooks from the period:
http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/czarina.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knudsen2/1.html
A couple of years ago one of my cooking friends found some similar links and several of us vied to see who could come up with the most ridiculous food photos.
So I suggested to Megan that as an adjunct to their virtual dinner party we hold a contest for tackiest food photo -- hence Does My Blog Look Tacky in This?
If you want to participate, here's the way it works. Take a really tacky photograph of your contribution to Megan's and Eliz's party and come up with a suitable caption. Send me a copy of the photo with:
Your name:
The name of the dish (may be ficticious):
A description of the dish (may be ficticious):
A link to your actual contribution to the dinner party:
You don't need to publish the tacky photo on your blog unless you want to.
Megan, Eliz, and I will judge the entries based on:
How unappetizing the photo is
Cleverness (inappropriateness) of props
Cleverness (inappropriateness) of name and description
Entries are due by or on Aug. 13. The winner will receive a cookbook (yet to be determined) published during the period in question.
8 Comments:
Kevin,
I'm so excited. This adds a whole new twist to the dinner party. I'm going to have all my guests bring a dish AND props and we'll set up a little photo shoot.
I know we probably can't participate, as we're judges, but I'm still going to submit an entry. I love "Office Surprise"!
Megan,
"I'm going to have all my guests bring a dish AND props and we'll set up a little photo shoot."
Great idea! Now I'm even more jealous.
"I know we probably can't participate, as we're judges, but I'm still going to submit an entry. I love "Office Surprise"!"
We can enter, we're just can't win.
Hey Kevin,
Eliz / Deepfry over at YUM would like to get in on the judging as well, if that's okay. Let me know!
M
You have no idea how annoyed I am right now that I just packed my entire costume collection into storage. I had Donna Reed and Jackie O outfits and everything!
Ah, well, off to the thrift store I go...
Miz D,
It's good to see you back on line. And even better to see you participating in a contest where poor photography (as opposed to your photography) has a chance.
I am sorry, though, that we won't get to see the Chopper dressed as Donna Reed.
kevin,
cool! i'm very excited about this. it certainly puts on the pressure in my search for the perfect 1950s outfit. those jello molds look much better against the backdrop of a drunken housewife with a poofy-skirt dress and a martini in hand.
eliz
Eliz,
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for drunken housewives in poofy skirts. I guess I should have been a milkman.
i love this idea
not sure if i have time to enter
will somebody go and post up the details on food blog scool???? please
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