- 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.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
On the food calendar this week
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I signed up for Project Food Blog. Should be interesting! I love a challenge.
Regarding food styling, I have relatively strict guidelines for myself. I want my food to be reproducible as shown at home, depending on technical skill and experience. Thus I don't use any artificial means of enhancing the food's appearance (no hairspray to make cake look more moist, for example).
I will, however, use natural enhancements that could be done at home -- things like cutting a piece of cake bigger than I'd actually eat, adding garnishes, spending an hour making a perfect frosting curly-cue, etc. Bottom line is that it's real food, really done by hand, and not misleading in any way.
That being said, I do think food styling with artifical means is a fun art -- just not my thing.
That is excellent to have a such a nice on-food-calendar-this-week.
I am elated to find this site.
I like the food pics..:)
Bottom line is that it's real food, really done by hand, and not misleading in any way.
Thus I don't use any artificial means of enhancing the food's appearance (no hairspray to make cake look more moist, for example.
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