Brand New Competition - Writing About Food
a monthly give-away of top of the range organic cosmetics and hair products. Before you think, duh, I just want to eat.... we're not suggesting for a minute that great recipes and the highest culinary standards are not the touchstone for good food writing. It's just that global warming and oil price hikes are a reality and they affect food in dramatic ways.
Food is the number one transported good. Food packaging is a major petro-chemical by-product. And there's more. They're all good reasons for trying to redefine our diets around fresh, local and organic but how close to that nirvana can we get? That's what the competition is all about.
We're giving away sets of organic cosmetics to the best sustainable food blog post each month for the next six months. The packages will be worth a minimum of Euro 100 or $150 and they are top of the line John Masters products. John runs a clean air hairdressing salon in New York and counts among his customers Susan Sarandon and many TV and film stars. We're now selling Masters products. They are just giveaways.
In most parts of the developed world fresh, local food makes up as little as 2% of food consumption, Food transport is a major social cost, as is food packaging, and they do none of us any good. Local is best. So how do we encourage more of it, more growers, better growing practices, more sustainability?
Now to the competition. The first closing date will be end-April but we'd like entries as soon as possible so that people have time to vote.
We want it to be an informal competition so please don't ask us for complex sets of rules.
The competition is to encourage recipes and blog posts that take an original or informative view on sustainability. It might be an idea for the weekend meal, the next dinner party, new sustainable products, or the children's supper. It can be a piece of politics or a gripe. The subject is yours to choose.
You can blog here - just sign up as a member and you will have immediate access to a mydietfriends blogging page - or it can be on your own blog.
If you use your own blog just tell us, e-mail info [at] mydietfriends [dot] com. By entering the competition you undertake to let us reproduce your blog here on mydietfriends, of course with a link back to your site.
If you're entering from your own blog you must link to us, from the relevant blog post. That way we know who is in and who is not. You also need to send us an e-mail so that we can confirm that you are participating.
When we have a minimum of five entries we'll put up a poll on the site here so that you can vote for a short list of three potential winners.
In order to vote you have to sign up on this site, so that we don't get multiple votes from one person. One person, one vote. OK?
The first month the three posts with the most votes will then be judged by a panel to see which one gets the prize.
In the meantime we'll be soliciting opinions on better ways to run the competition and that might mean for month two things change.
If there's any obvious multiple voting we reserve the right to eliminate any post. Please play it fair and square. It's a small prize for the winner but a bigger prize for all of us if we learn more about sustainable food.
| < Melitzana salata | What Not To Eat > |