The Root Source Challenge
January 29th, 2008
With the launch of the Cookthinktank, we opened up Cookthink to new voices. We love having recipes from some of our favorite food bloggers on the site. The next voice we want to hear is yours.
Many of you already subscribe to the root source, the weekly email we send out every Thursday. In each root source, we focus on one ingredient and chew over the best ways to buy it, store it, prep it and cook with it.
What the thousands of root source subscribers tell us they love most about it are the links to recipes that feature that week’s ingredient. That’s where the Root Source Challenge comes in.
Every Tuesday, we’ll announce the subject of the root source three weeks out. To participate, email us a link to your best recipe using that ingredient. We’ll pick our favorite, feature it in the root source and publish it on Cookthink.com. (We’ll post a round-up of other favorite recipes here at the Cookthink blog.) We’ll also send a cookbook to the person who submits the featured recipe.*
To participate, all you need to do is send an email to rootsourcechallenge [at] cookthink [dot] com with your name and email address, the name of your blog and a permalink to the recipe. (If you don’t have the recipe online, just include it in the body of the email.)
A few rules:
1. The recipe must be your original work. If it’s a modification or derivative of an existing recipe, you need to state that in the post. Any images must be your original work.
2. Submitting the recipe to the contest constitutes permission for us to republish it at Cookthink.com. The featured recipes we publish will be attributed to their source with a link. We reserve the right to (lightly) edit the recipe to make it conform to our style guidelines. We also reserve the right to use one of our stock images with the recipe.
3. Submit as often as you like.
The subject for the first root source challenge is flat-leaf parsley! The person who submits the featured recipe will receive a copy of Jeanne Kelley’s beautiful Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden. Submissions are due by 12 noon EST, Tuesday, February 19th.
Send off your flat-leaf parsley recipes to rootsourcechallenge [at] cookthink [dot] com. We can’t wait to hear from you!
If you’re not a root source subscriber, you can sign up here. If you’d like to blog about the Root Source Challenge, you can find logos here and here.
*Special thanks to The Lisa Ekus Group for donating cookbooks for the Root Source Challenge.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Very cool, Cookthink. Will be excited to see what comes out of the woodwork.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Very cool! I’ve just announced this on my blog and am really looking forward to it.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Thanks Food Rockz Man! We’re so happy you’re spreading the word.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Wicked. This may inspire me to finally start a recipe blog.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
This is great! I’m really happy to see that readers can get involved; I read this site all the time and am always excited when stuff I am making overlaps with ideas posted to the blog. I really love what you guys do here!
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February 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hi, I just tried emailing rootsourcechallenge@cookthink.com and I keep receiving a ‘failure’ message. Should I be emailing my recipe to a different email? Thank you and great idea!! Amy @ http://www.neverfull.wordpress.com
February 11th, 2008 at 9:15 am
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