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Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
So, in other words, it’s a bit like www.tastespotting.com.
Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger
Back in 1990 while touring through Australia somewhere between Brisbane and Noosa Heads, our tourbus stopped off at a little mum 'n pop rest stop/short-order eatery, and I had a huge-ass version of the Aussie Burger called "The Big Mother". It had a very very thick beef patty, large buns, two runny-yolked fried eggs, craploads of cheese, big slices of beets (which seemed strange to my American tastebuds), and "salad", which in Australian means "put lettuce and a slice of tomato on it". I don't recall if there was avocado on it, but that thing satisfied.
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Real name withheld as per arrangements set up by my lawyer.
Occupation: underpaid, underappreciated technical illustrator, publisher, web designer
Location: San Jose
Employment history: lengthy, nowhere does it include the title of "head chef"
Educational history: high school, college, life
Cooking philosophy: drench it in alcohol, set it on fire, serve
Interesting tidbit: in 1980 or 1981 my mother turned down the opportunity to have her own cooking show on PBS; now that she's gone it has been my duty to keep the "stunt cookery" going strong.
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What nut is next?
Glad that cashews aren't nuts, and this should make kathyvegas not just knowledgeable but also more comfortable with the idea that they aren't hazardous... yet.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
So, in other words, it’s a bit like www.tastespotting.com.
Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger
Back in 1990 while touring through Australia somewhere between Brisbane and Noosa Heads, our tourbus stopped off at a little mum 'n pop rest stop/short-order eatery, and I had a huge-ass version of the Aussie Burger called "The Big Mother". It had a very very thick beef patty, large buns, two runny-yolked fried eggs, craploads of cheese, big slices of beets (which seemed strange to my American tastebuds), and "salad", which in Australian means "put lettuce and a slice of tomato on it". I don't recall if there was avocado on it, but that thing satisfied.
SE users: please introduce yourselves.
Real name withheld as per arrangements set up by my lawyer.
Occupation: underpaid, underappreciated technical illustrator, publisher, web designer
Location: San Jose
Employment history: lengthy, nowhere does it include the title of "head chef"
Educational history: high school, college, life
Cooking philosophy: drench it in alcohol, set it on fire, serve
Interesting tidbit: in 1980 or 1981 my mother turned down the opportunity to have her own cooking show on PBS; now that she's gone it has been my duty to keep the "stunt cookery" going strong.
Someone in Mountain View, California, Is Missing a Burrito
Actually, La Costeña market on Rengstorff and Old Middlefield Road in Mountain View makes a two-tortilla burrito the size of an infant. Anyone who has eaten one before will tell you. BTW their carnitas kicks ass!
Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger
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Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
Hmm.. try eatbite.com
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I'm lamora and I live in the Central Valley of California. Half British, half Latina (air force brat). I spent most of my early years in England, until transferring back to the states when I was 17. I married a latino, who had never had anything but straight mexican foods, birria, tacos de cesos ( don't make me tell you what that is) and believe me, our first date dinner of roast beef, mash, brussels & gravy (which I cooked) was washed over with a slurp of his smuggled in hot sauce!!! I was mortified...but you know what...22 years later, he has grown to appreciate different foods. I am from a family of 8 and while in English school, took cookery lessons since age 9. We grew up cooking homey, hearty meals for the family and there are quite a few "twists" on the food my Brit mum tried to make for my dad back in the States...Chile on top of mashed potatoes!! (try it, it's delish!!) Anyway...I love this blog and hope to get to know you all!!!!
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
@Boscompb: I'd recommend uploading the smaller versions you have stored in iPhoto, and linking to the larger version on your blog.
@Barbara Hanson: As long as it's a delicious-looking photo, we don't care what kind of camera was used to take the photo.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
I'm assuming that no toy/lomo cameras are allowed to play.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
I have images posted on my blog that are all bigger than 1 MB, but have a zillion photos in my iphoto that are not as big. Can I link to them instead?
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
@ Jim Glover: obviously you've never been pregnant.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
Thanks Aliana, I will do some of the necessary work on some of my images and link back to the appropriate page on http://www.whatamieating.com
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
@Foodlexi: Great question! Yes 'food-related' or 'ingredient porn' is totally acceptable! In linking back, we'd prefer if you linked to that ingredients individual page instead of the main index.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
I wonder, can these be 'food-related' pictures rather than just straightforward dishes? I have some reasonably good pictures of ingredients, including over 200 different varieties of apple, more than 100 varieties of tomato and so on. As long as I only upload 'beautiful' ones, are these welcome too? I would link back to my website http://www.whatamieating.com - Would this be acceptable?
With thanks,
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
It's like some sort of crazy food photo dream come true. Seriously.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
@mrslucas: Were you uploading images larger than 1 MB? That can cause a 500 error. Try submitting an image with a smaller file size. Please let me know if you have any more problems.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
I love Photograzing! I think the community aspect makes it unique. It's really cool to see photos from posters you are familiar with from the SE discussion community but might not be as familiar with their blogs. Nice work!
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
Great fun -- but my attempt to upload an image got an "internal server error" response, twice :(
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
@stu_spivac As one of the pretenders (foodgawker), we eliminated a click for you. The images in our RSS feed now go directly to the source website. It was on our To Do List. Thanks for the reminder!
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
I never participated in Tastespotting because they didn't permit links to bare photos. (The photos had to be part of a blog post.) I'm looking forward to participating here. Even though it allows me to participate, I mention it because it may have been a wise policy. You should keep an eye on flickr-centric posts and see if you consider them to be as worthy as full-fledged blog posts.
I'm curious whether the new Tastespotting still has that policy. I noticed that they're now linking directly to the source of the image from the RSS feed. I'm glad Photograzing also does that and I hope it stays that way. As I recall, the old Tastespotting and one or two of the pretenders to the tastespotting throne required you to click through their home pages to get to the original source of the image. I'd rather see ads in the rss feed than have to click twice.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
@Raphael: Yep, that was most likely it. Thanks!
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
Jim Glover said -- I don't understand the whole "food porn" phenomena.
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I think people sometimes enjoy looking at food as much as they do eating it. Even bad food is fun to look at, if presented right. I don't really understand it either. But I'm guilty of it too, so why fight it. I just go with it.
It's our most basic instinct, eating. Well, besides sex. And it's difficult for many to surf porn at the office, but nobody is going to think twice if they walk by your desk and see you glaring at 'chicken' breasts.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
Hooray! Way to go. This is a fantastic addition to the SE family.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
But isn't Tastespotting back up sort of. It's up with some format changes and no longer part of notcot.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
You guys did a great job on the site, both design/layout and the user interface.
Simple, elegant.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
@m3dia: is it possible that your image is larger than 1 MB? That can cause a 500 error. Try submitting an image with a smaller file size - it should totally work!
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
Cool, but I keep getting 500 errors when I try to upload. Sigh. I'll try again later.
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
Of course, LiveToEat! I'm sorry if the wording seemed to exclude people without foodblogs.
The upload form requires a URL to link back to and won't process the image without one.
If you have a Flickr account (or other similar photo-sharing account) and the image appears there, you can link back to that image. If you don't have a Flickr account, you can set up a free one pretty quickly and easily.
And let me clear up something here: If you have a blog that's not primarily about food, you're still welcome to post a food photo from it to Photograzing—as long as the photo is linking back to whatever entry that food photo came from.
Example: You have a knitting blog, but on Fridays you blog about desserts and take beautiful photos of your baked goods. You would submit your dessert pic and link to your Friday dessert post.
That said, the URL you input should link back to the food item pictured in some way. To keep things interesting, the quality high, and to further the food conversation, we'd like to see permalinks back to the actual food item so that spammers don't come in and try to use Photograzing as a forum to drive traffic to generalized, top-level pages. Does that make sense?
Introducing Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos Here
LOVE IT!
But what if I don't have a food blog? Can I still submit photos?
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Glad that cashews aren't nuts, and this should make kathyvegas not just knowledgeable but also more comfortable with the idea that they aren't hazardous... yet.