Hello friends!! On April 3rd Feasting on Art will be one year old! I am very proud of this site and to celebrate I am holding a recipe competition. To perpetuate the dialogue about food and art I want to get all of my readers involved so don’t be shy, even if you’ve never left a comment please participate! The very first painting I posted here was a still life by Renoir and it seemed only appropriate to post another of his paintings a year later. I chose a still life that could be adapted to either a sweet or savory recipe, see my posts for Strawberry BBQ Pulled Pork, Strawberry Shortcake, and Berry Vlaai for inspiration. I know that many of you are in the middle of winter so feel free to use frozen strawberries, strawberry jam or even a flavored liquor or vodka in your recipes. Also don’t assume strawberries have to be the central ingredient, you could make a lot of interesting things with lemon using strawberry as an accompaniment. You can find the contest and prize details below.
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Strawberries, 1905
oil on canvas, 46 x 28 cm, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
Contest Directions: Create an original recipe with the ingredients depicted in the still life painting Strawberries. Post the recipe on your website including the painting above and a link back to this blog post about the contest. The post title needs to state ‘Feasting on Art Recipe Contest.’ Once the post is live ,email the following information to tresjoliestudios AT gmail DOT com with the subject line ‘Entry: Feasting on Art Recipe Contest‘:
Name, Mailing Address, Recipe Title, URL to recipe on blog, 100 px by 100 px image of recipe
The entries will be made into a photo gallery and the picture you submit will link back to your entry post. The image order will be determined by entry date so email your recipes ASAP to be at the top of the list! Contest Deadline: Saturday 27th March, 2010. The winner and entry gallery will be posted on the one year anniversary of the blog, Saturday 3rd April, 2010.
Judging/Prize: Entries will be judged on the creativity and originality of both the recipe and the photography. Get experimental, don’t limit yourself to only sweet recipes because the painting depicts fruit. Pending availability, the winner will receive the cookbook The Impressionists’ Table: A Celebration of Regional French Food Through the Palettes of the Great Impressionists by Pamela Todd.
Best of luck to all of the contestants – I cannot wait to see the great art inspired recipes!
Happy 1st birthday Megan! And what a cool way to celebrate! :D
Wow, Happy Birthday to your blog! A great event!
cheers,
Rosa
What a great contest Megan – will try and get in on the act :)
Happy Birthday to your blog- your posts are so creative and off-beat; I always getting a new appreciation for art from reading your blog.
This will be a challenge. Strawberries are clear but is an orange or a lemon… is there honey or cream or sugar in the pot??? Inquiring minds??? Congrats on your blog… it is always a joy to read…more like a present!!!!!
Yes! I’ll definitely try to enter this.
Happy birthday to your awesome blog. I am so happy for you. I knew your blog was a gem from the moment i found it :)
*kisses* HH
This is so fun! Happy bday to your blog. I must rack my brain for this contest…. :)
I’m so in……….. Boy. I love to be inspired by constraints! Thanks Megan!
Congratulations on being a year older (and wiser)….in this awesome world of foodies!
Great way to celebrate, Megan. I will see if I can whip something up…
I’m so excited about this Megan! I added it to my calendar. Time to start thinking. It had better be good to celebrate your first birthday!
Wow, a year… Happy anniversary! I’m getting started on ideas… I can’t tell you how excited I am to do this!
hooray!
what a fun contest … i’m definitely going to have to scour the little tiny edges of my mind to come up with something good.
happy blog birthday.
ta ta,
Leela
so so so fun!! Can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with…..and maybe play around with a few things myself:)
How fun!
I can’t believe it’s been a year already! Time flies! :-)
What a great idea and a lovely site!Hmmm… now what to create?
Look at you almost one year old and all grown up! Man, that went so fast!
I’m totally up to the challenge, but very glad that you gave such a good heads up, considering all of the newness in our household.
Oh, and thanks for the good wishes towards Lasse. Very sweet.
Hi Megan, Oh I do so love your blog. This is my first visit, after seeing you in H2OPE for Haiti. Congratulations on one year.
I have had the book Renoir’s Table for years. It was given to me by a dear friend who passed away several years ago. I took it off the shelf last night to read today, as I had thought about the concept of cooking from a book of art. And here you are already doing it. Congratulations on a great idea. I shall have to think of something different. Incredible I should discover you post today.
Cezanne’s Tomatoes are a favourite recipe of ours from Renoir’s Table and I posted about them in my first month of blogging back in 2005.
I look forward to reading more of your blog. I shall enter the contest.
Thanks for all of the ‘birthday’ wishes! The first entry was submitted this morning – can’t wait to see what the rest of you come up with!
Count me in too!
I’m in – I’ve been slow on the blog for a while and you’re always an inspiration to get cooking. I’m game. And happy anniversary – I can’t believe I found you a year ago already!
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Wow…i am whacking my brains now….cant wait to make something for your event:)
Ack… got here late. 3 days to go! Lemme see what I can do!
time to put my thinking cap (baking cap!?) on. lol
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Done! Thanks for the inspiration!
http://www.chaoticchef.com/?p=83
What a great way to celebrate your beautiful blog! I’m brainstorming…
I’ve been making a Strawberry Chicken for over 30 years! Just became aware of your site thanks to @FoodNewsJournal on Twitter. Love it and have shared with our friends/fans.
Happy Anniversary! (Psst- Our magazine is celebrating 3 years this month!)
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