On the food calendar this week

• Domino's Pizza wants to make the point that what you see in the pictures is what you get in the box. So it's doing away away with anything that smacks of food styling. No steamer-softened cheese stretches or blow-torch browned spots. (Pity - there's an art to making food look both real and tasty.) To mark the occasion, they're having a contest: Take a picture of a Domino's pizza and win $500. You have to shoot the pizza au naturelle and submit the picture at www.showusyourpizza.com by July 26.
• Have you ever entered your cooking in a fair? The season is coming. The Dixie Classic Fair, Oct. 1-10 in Winston-Salem, has more than a dozen food competitions this year, from the Great American Spam Championship to the Fried Apple Pie Contest. Get details, deadlines and entry forms at www.dcfair.org. If you're aiming for the N.C. State Fair, Oct. 14-24 in Raleigh, the competition premium book that lists those cooking contests will be available in August at www.ncstatefair.org.
• So maybe you can't be the next Food Network star. Or even the Top Chef. You still have a chance at being a hot food blogger. Food-blog aggregator Foodbuzz is sponsoring Project Food Blog, a series of challenges focusing on food bloggers. Dana Cowin, editor-in-chief of Food & Wine magazine (you know, a magazine -- one of those old print media things) is the judge. The last blogger standing (typing? posting? uploading 12 pictures of the same thing?) gets $10,000 and gets featured on Foodbuzz for a year.