Looking for a great place to share interesting and topical food related news stories?

Recently, the folks at NowPublic.Com were kind enough to name me their new Cuisine Editor.

The NowPublic Cuisine Section is really growing, so if you’re a food blogger, a professional chef, or a passionate home cook I’d like to encourage you to share any interesting and topical food related news you’ve come across (from your food blog, community, and elsewhere) on the Cuisine portion of the site which is at http://www.nowpublic.com/tag/cuisine.

According to Quantcast.Com, NowPublic.Com attracts a growing audience of 643,000+ readers a month, so any food related news you contribute will be enjoyed by readers around the globe. Time Magazine named NowPublic one of the Top 50 Websites of 2007.

Of course, signing up at http://www.nowpublic.com is completely free of charge, and you can start posting food related news stories quickly and easily. (If you’re a food blogger, you can tastefully link to your food blog in your byline at the end of any stories you contribute, as well as in your NowPublic profile).

NowPublic is especially looking for topical stories about such food news as regional food events, new trends in cooking and ingredients, news about famous chefs and restaurants, foodie stories tied to holidays and topical events (ie. Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.), locavore and vegetarian news, etc.

To get an idea of what kind of stories work best, checkout the the food column of your local newspaper’s website for an idea of tone and topic. (The Dining & Wine Column in The New York Times is a great place to find inspiration as well.)

You can also read NowPublic’s helpful FAQ here.

Gentle Warning: Of course, NowPublic.Com isn’t the place to post press releases or commercial pitches.

I’ve joined NowPublic.Com. How Do I Make Sure My Foodie News Story Ends Up in the Cuisine Section?

To make sure the food stories you create automatically show up in the Cuisine Section, just make sure to add them to the STYLE CATEGORY using the convenient pulldown at the bottom right hand side of your post as you are writing it.

Then, under tags, make sure you include the word cuisine before you click the SAVE BUTTON. Voila! Your story is now instantly ready to be viewed in the Cuisine Section!

Whether you’re a food blogger, a professional chef, a citizen journalist, or a passionate home cook, I hope you’ll join me on NowPublic to regularly read and share food news.

BTW, my NowPublic username is Huggingthecoast.Com…hope to see you there!

A Few Related Posts:

If you liked this post, here’s a few more on similar subjects:

• Shoot Your Food: The Fine Art of Food Photography: Part 1 of 2

• Shoot Your Food: The Fine Art of Food Photography: Part 2 of 2

• How to Join the Free Foodbuzz Publishers Community and Get More Readers For Your Foodie Blog

Please join us tomorrow to read our story about the reemergence of local dinner clubs called Building Community, One Dinner at a Time.

Recently, the folks at Foodbuzz have helped coordinate yet another wonderful series of blog posts featuring two dozen of their foodie members simultaneously celebrating some of the best regional and local foods throughout the world.

We at HuggingtheCoast.Com were very lucky to have been a part of this special, monthly international food and travel blog event which you can enjoy below.

Blog: Appetite For China
Post: October 24, 24, 24: A Chinese-Caribbean Celebration

Blog: Cajun Chef Ryan
Post: Foodbuzz 24,24,24: Food Fare at the North Carolina State Fair

Blog: Dalla Mia Cucina
Post: 24, 24, 24: A “Harvest Clam Bake” at Stuart Cellars Vineyard

Blog: Fake Food Free
Post: 24, 24, 24: Country-Style U.S. Breakfast in Brazil

Blog: Genki Tummy
Post: 24, 24, 24: Grazing Champaign-Urbana: A 24-hour Meal

Blog: Gild the Voodoolily
Post: October 24, 24, 24: Hunter, Gatherer, Vintner

Blog: Greek Food: Recipes and Reflections
Post: FoodBuzz 24, 24, 24: Greek Food Hospital-ity

Blog: Hugging the Coast
Post: 24, 24, 24: The “Hand-To-Mouth Meals” Series: Shrimp

Blog: I Nom Things
Post: 24, 24, 24: From Fish To Dinner: Learning From An Itamae Chef

Blog: Just Another Spatula
Post: 24, 24, 24: Celebrating Potjiekos: A Traditional South African Dish

Blog: Kalofagas Greek Food and Beyond
Post: 24 24 24 My Big Fat Greek Thanksgiving

Blog: Kittens in the Kitchen
Post: 24, 24, 24: Six Friends, Six Countries, One City

Blog: Offbeat Eating
Post: 24, 24, 24: A Home Cooked Italian Feast

Blog: On a Lobster Placemat
Post: 24, 24, 24: The Spontaneous Dinner Party

Blog: Play With Food
Post: 24, 24, 24: Fall, Family, Friends, and Food- Camp Cooking in the Mountains

Blog: Satisfying My Sweet Tooth
Post: 24, 24, 24: An International Progressive Dinner

Blog: Southern Plate
Post: 24,24,24: A Southern Family: Brunch In The Heart Of Dixie

Blog: Spicyandhra
Post: 24,24,24: South Indian Flavours to Spice Up the UK

Blog: Steamy Kitchen
Post: 24, 24, 24: Artisanal Steak Tasting

Blog: Steph Chows
Post: 24 24 24: Cold Comfort

Blog: A Table For Two
Post: 24, 24, 24: Stickier & Sweeter Sydney Tour, One Night Sugar Hit!

Blog: Taste With the Eyes
Post: 24, 24, 24: Gourmet Retro Dinner Party

Blog: The Wandering Gourmet
Post: 24, 24, 24: The Bloggers’ Brunch

Blog: What’s Cooking?
Post: 24, 24, 24: Chiles en Nogada: Celebrating Foodbuzz and Mexican Cuisine

By the way, if you have a food blog and want more information about joining the free Foodbuzz Publisher Program, you can find it here.

If you enjoyed this post, you might also want to visit our previous contributions to the Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24 Series: The Four Corners of Carolina BBQ and The Hand to Mouth Meals Series: Shrimp.

You can also see a fun video about the first 24, 24, 24 Series here as well as read contributions from the very first participating bloggers in the series here…enjoy!

Foodbuzz has made a wonderful video which captures the excitement of a global food blogging event we were lucky to participate in (along with 23 other great blogs) which you can see below (or here). Enjoy!

There’s a special buzz in the air! Please join us on Sunday for a very special blog feature we’re doing to launch our new Hand to Mouth Series!

As part of our Hand to Mouth Series, we’ll be engaged in all the processes (harvest, handling, transport, menu development, and preparation) that transform an ingredient into food, and share it here with original recipes, photos, video, and commentary on HuggingtheCoast.Com.

Tomorrow’s ingredient features delicious local shrimp from the waters of Charleston, SC!

We don’t normally share press releases here on Hugging the Coast.Com. However, because there are so many devoted food bloggers and home chefs that visit this site, we couldn’t help but share the news about the official launch of Foodbuzz’s growing but already popular free online foodie community.

For the past six months, we’ve been happy members of the Foodbuzz community and have been amazed at the quality and diversity of the fellow food blogs we’ve read there.

Personally, if you’re a home cook, I can’t think of a more exciting place to catch up on the latest trends in cooking, learn more about new ingredients, find good recipes, read and share restaurant reviews, and meet people as passionate about food as yourself.

If you’re a food blogger, Foodbuzz is also the place to rub floured elbows with some of the most dedicated online food writers out there as well as to find tips and opportunities that will help grow your own blog.

Here’s Foodbuzz’s official grand opening announcement:

San Francisco – October 13, 2008: Foodbuzz, Inc., officially inaugurates its food blogger community with more than 1,000 blog partners, a global food blogging event and an online platform that captures the real-people, real-time power of food publishing in every corner of the world.

At launch, the Foodbuzz community ranks as one of the top-10 Internet destinations for food and dining (Quantcast), with bloggers based in 45 countries and 863 cities serving up daily food content.“Food bloggers are at the forefront of reality publishing and the dramatic growth of new media has redefined how food enthusiasts access tasty content,” said Doug Collister, Executive Vice President of Foodbuzz, Inc.

“Food bloggers are the new breed of local food experts and at any minute of the day, Foodbuzz is there to help capture the immediacy of their hands-on experiences, be it a memorable restaurant meal, a trip to the farmers market, or a special home-cooked meal.”

Foodbuzz is the only online community with content created exclusively by food bloggers and rated by foodies. The site offers more than 20,000 pieces of new food and dining content weekly, including recipes, photos, blog posts, videos and restaurant reviews.   Members decide the “tastiness” of each piece of content by voting and “buzz” the most popular posts to the top of the daily menu of submissions.  Foodbuzz currently logs over 13 million monthly page views and over three million monthly unique visitors.

“Our goal is to be the number-one online source of quality food and dining content by promoting the talent, enthusiasm and knowledge of food bloggers around the globe,” said Ben Dehan, founder and CEO of Foodbuzz, Inc.

The Foodbuzz blogger community is growing at a rate of 40 percent per month driven by strong growth in existing partner blogs and the addition of over 100 new blogs per month.  “The Foodbuzz.com Web site is like the stock of a great soup. The Web site provides the base or backbone for bloggers to interact as a community, contribute content, and have that content buzzed by their peers,” said Mr. Dehan.

Global Blogging Event

Demonstrating the talent and scope of the Foodbuzz community, 24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Blogs offered online food enthusiasts an international, virtual street festival of food and diversity.  The new feature showcased blog posts from 24 Foodbuzz partner bloggers chronicling events occurring around the globe during a 24 hour period and included:

• Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet (New York, NY)
• The “Found on Foodbuzz” 24-Item Tasting Menu (San Francisco, CA)
• Aussie BBQ Bonanza – Celebrating Diversity(Sydney, Australia)
• The Four Corners of Carolina BBQ Road Trip (Charleston, SC)
• Criminal Tastes – An Illegal Supper (Crested Butte, CO)
• From Matambre to Empanadas: An Argentine Dinner (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• A Sweet Trompe l’oeil (Seattle, WA)

“24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Blogs” captures the quality and unique local perspective of our food bloggers and shared it with the world,” said Ryan Stern, Director of the Foodbuzz Publisher Community.  “It illustrates exactly what the future of food publishing is all about – real food, experienced by real people, shared real-time.”

About Foodbuzz, Inc.

Based in San Francisco, Foodbuzz, Inc., launched its beta Web site, foodbuzz.com, in 2007.  In less than a year, Foodbuzz.com and its community of over 1,000 exclusive partner food blogs have grown into an extended online property that reaches more than three million users.

You can find out more about Foodbuzz’s recent Global Blogging Event here.

Enjoy!

On Monday, the folks at Foodbuzz have helped coordinate a wonderful series of blog posts featuring two dozen of their members simultaneously celebrating some of the best regional and local foods throughout the world.

We at HuggingtheCoast.Com were very lucky to have been a part of this unique, one-of-a kind international food and travel blog event which you can enjoy below.

NORTH AMERICA

Location- Canada
Post: 24, 24, 24: Chocoholic Heaven
Blog: Culinary Escapade

Location- California: Los Angeles
Post: 24, 24, 24: Farmers’ Market Iron Chef: Battle in the Kitchen/ Spicy Salty Sweet
Blog: Spicy Salty Sweet

Location- California: Los Angeles
Post: 24, 24, 24: Farmers’ Market Iron Chef: Battle in the Kitchen/ Food Woolf
Blog: Food Woolf

Location- California: San Francisco
Post: 24, 24, 24: The “Found on Foodbuzz” 24-Item Tasting Menu
Blog: Food Wishes Video Recipes

Location- California: Sausalito
Post: 24, 24, 24: Welcome to the Chateau - An Evening of Wine, Food, and Art
Blog: Chateau Petrogasm

Location- Colorado: Crested Butte
Post: 24, 24, 24: Criminal Tastes - An Illegal Supper
Blog: The Nourished Kitchen

Location- Florida: Miami
Post: 24, 24, 24: First Annual Farm to Table Dinner
Blog: Miami Dish

Location- Hawaii: Oahu
Post: 24, 24, 24: `Aha`aina - Recapturing the Global Flavors of the Luau
Blog: Accidental Scientist

Location- New Jersey: Red Bank
Post: 24, 24, 24: A Tomato Garden Party
Blog: Jersey Bites

Location- New York: Harlem
Post: 24, 24, 24: Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet
Blog: Red Cook: Adventures From a Chinese Home Kitchen

Location- New York: New York
Post: 24, 24, 24: No Menus: an Underground Restaurant Affair
Blog: No Recipes

Location: New York: Stone Ridge
Post: 24, 24, 24: From Provence to the Catskills - a Voyage from David to Bertolli
Blog: Constables Larder

Location- Ohio: Cleveland
Post: 24,24,24: Eating Art: A Tasting Menu Inspired by Masterworks of Art
Blog: Feeding Maybelle

Location- South Carolina: Charleston
Post: 24, 24, 24: The Four Corners of Carolina BBQ Road Trip
Blog: Hugging the Coast

Location- Washington: Seattle
Post: 24, 24, 24: A Sweet Trompe l’oeil
Blog: Cake Spy

SOUTH AMERICA

Location- Argentina
Post: 24 24 24: From Matambre to Empanadas: An Argentine Dinner
Blog: La Vida en Buenos Aires y Afines

EUROPE

Location- England
Post: 24, 24, 24: The Very Best of British
Blog: Food Stories

Location- Greece
Post: 24, 24, 24: Hot Weather Lunch
Blog: Food Junkie Not Junk Food

Location- Italy
Post: 24, 24, 24: Eating with Tuscan Locavores
Blog: Wandering Italy

Location- Serbia
Post: 24, 24, 24: Medieval Cuisine Of Serbia
Blog: Palachinka

Location- Spain
Post: 24, 24, 24: A Spanish Menu - My Gift to the Winners of the Olympic Games
Blog: Spanish Recipes

ASIA

Location- India
Post: 24, 24, 24: Eat Like a King- Feast For a Maharaja
Blog: Passionate About Baking

Location- Singapore
Post: 24, 24, 24: East Meets West in A Tropical Garden City
Blog: Noob Cook

Location- South Korea
Post: 24, 24, 24: Behind-the-Kitchen with Chef Hu-nam Kim of Star Chef
Blog: ZenKimchi Korean Food Journal

OCEANIA

Location- Australia
Post: 24, 24, 24: Aussie BBQ Bonanza - Celebrating Diversity
Blog: Fig and Cherry

By the way, if you have a food blog and want more information about joining the free Foodbuzz Publisher Program, you can find it here.

We’ve recently added two new features to Hugging the Coast that we hope will make the site more useful and interesting: blog widgets and eHow articles.

Blog widgets are an easy way for you to instantly be able to share and enjoy the latest original recipes and blog features from HuggingtheCoast.Com on your Myspace, Facebook, Netvibes, and iGoogle, sites as well as your favorite Wordpress, Blogger, Live Journal, or Typepad blog.

We’ve just created 2 easy to configure widgets which are very easy easy to customize to whatever size and color you’d like; the better to accent your personal startup page, social networking sites, or blog.

You can find out more about the 2 blog widgets (as well as how to add them to your page) here.

The second feature we’ve recently added to the site are links to our growing library of food related articles on eHow, most based on the original recipes and techniques we share here. All of our eHow articles are easily printable, and can also be saved to your eHow favorites with ease.

You can see a list of the Hugging the Coast eHow articles as they are added here.

A few weeks ago, we entered and were lucky enough to be one of the winners of a free weekly contest to win a selection of gourmet tuna and salmon products from SAFCOL which has been in business since 1945. (They also have some nice seafood recipes here.)

Recently, a large, heavy box from them arrived…here’s what was in the box:

SAFCOL Gourmet on the Go Chunk Light Tuna:

• 2 Cans Spicy Tuna (Chipotle) 6oz.
• 2 Cans Tuna With Sweet Chili Sauce 6oz.
• 2 Cans Tuna With Tomato Salsa 6oz.
• 2 Cans Tuna With Lemon and Pepper 6oz.
• 2 Cans Tuna Spread 3.4oz.
• 2 Foil Packets Tuna With Spicy Onion in Spring Water 3.5oz
• 2 Foil Packets Tuna With Oven Dried Tomato and Basil in Spring Water 3.5oz

SAFCOL Gourmet on the Go Skinless Boneless Chunk Salmon:

• 2 Cans Salmon With Oven Dried Tomato and Basil in Spring Water 6oz.
• 2 Cans Salmon With Cajun Spice 6oz.
• 2 Cans Salmon With Lemon and Cracked Pepper 6oz.
• 2 Foil Packets Salmon With Lemon and Dill in Spring Water 3.5oz
• 2 Foil Packets Salmon Mediterranean Style in Spring Water 3.5oz

Plus a SAFCOL T-shirt and a calculator.

How To Enter This Free Contest

To get your own free chance to win a selection of seafood products from SAFCOL, all you have to do is sign up for a free membership on Foodbuzz.Com (if you aren’t already a member). Then add SAFCOL as a friend and cast a vote for them using the easy “vote-up” feature to win products and prizes from now throughout July! Two winners are announced every week.

BTW, if you’re a food blogger with a high quality blog, you may also be interested in joining Foodbuzz’s free Featured Publisher Program. You can find out more about it here.

Part II: Where to Share Your Food Photos
and/or Find Culinary Visual Inspiration

(If you missed Part I: Tips For Photographing Food Like a Pro For Your Blog or Website you can read it here.)

1. A Few Words About Tastespotting, Plus Other Places to Share Your Food Photos and Get Inspired

If you’re like me and love to think, write, and lust over inspiring photos of food, you’ll be sad to hear that the influential food porn site, Tastespotting is no more.

According to a note on the homepage of the site, the blog was closed down for legal reasons amid much online speculation on Metafilter, Serious Eats, and (most ominously) here.

If you’re a food blogger, columnist, or home cook this news hits especially hard as the photos on Tastespotting probably launched nearly as many posts, columns, meals, and food articles as ships that sailed for Helen of Troy.

On the bright side, two good alternatives to Tastespotting for sharing your food photos have just emerged: Food Gawker and Recipe Muncher.

Also, word is that the folks at Recipes2Share are also expanding the functionality of their Food Gallery over the next few days to help fill the Tastespotting niche.

Other more established alternatives to Tastespotting include Open Source Food and PhotoEats (which combines a food gallery with worldwide restaurant reviews).

Alas, the future of the site Food Porn Watch is a bit shaky, but if they get help with their hosting they will remain another valuable resource for food photographers looking to showcase their work.

Looking to test your photographic mettle against other online food photogs? Still Life With is the place to find out what their latest Flickr foodie photo challenges are and how to contribute.

2. Offline Inspiration

Don’t forget to read the recent print issues of such food magazines as Saveur, Bon Appetit, and Food & Wine to see what visual trends are emerging in food photography. Back issues of these magazines are available at most good public libraries. You’ll probably also want to look at cookbooks with quality photographs as well to help spark a few new ideas.

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Part I: Tips For Photographing Food
Like a Pro For Your Blog or Website

(Don’t miss Part II: Where to Share Your Food Photos
and/or Find Culinary Visual Inspiration which appears here.)

1. Choosing a Digital Camera
(please skip to #2 if you already have one)

You’ll need a digital camera with good optical zoom (the higher the number the better it usually is, ie. 10X is better than 6X) and it should offer a macro feature. The macro feature will allow you to take extreme closeups of the food you are photographing…perfect for showing the precise swirls on the cakes you decorate, the intricate druplet pattern on a perfect raspberry, etc.

Like optical zoom, in general, the higher the number of megapixels the camera can process, the better the details in the photographs will be (and the better they will look if they end up being printed out at larger sizes).

Before buying a digital camera, don’t forget to spend a little time reading customer reviews on various cameras on Epinions.Com or Amazon. YouTube also has some great video reviews where you can see what various cameras come with right out of the box, as well as a visual demonstrations of their features and flaws.

2. Avoiding “the Blurs”

The number one cause of blurry photographs is the inadvertent movement of your hands or body while you are taking your pictures.

The easiest way to fix that problem is to get a tripod. Tabletop tripods are short and extremely portable, and are great for photographing items on counter-tops and tables. However, in many cases, a full size tripod will do all that and more, as well as to help you take good photos in places with uneven flooring or rocky terrain by quickly adjusting the length of the individual feet of the tripod as needed.

If you’d like to forgo buying a tripod altogether and are relatively handy, you can also learn how to make your own image stabilizer for under $5 here.

If for some reason you don’t have a tripod (or DIY image stabilizer) with you and you need to take a photo, try keeping your hands as steady as possible while holding your breath to minimize camera shake and blur. Standing with your legs spread out somewhat wider than usual will help stabilize your movements as well.

3. Good Lighting Makes a Big Difference

Light stands are the perfect way to provide good, even light in the photographs you take. However, they can be expensive, so here are a few less pricey alternatives:

You can use 2-3 clamp lamps (often available for less than $10 each in office stores, auto part stores, and general retailers…or even less if you buy them secondhand at thrift stores, flea markets, or garage sales) and position them as needed.

For shots taken in our kitchen (like the ones you see throughout this blog post) we used the light from a set of tracklights we installed in the kitchen for the purpose.
Additionally, if you have fluorescent lights in the room where you are photographing regularly, you might want to shut them off before taking pictures and rely entirely on the light from the incandescent bulbs in your photography lights as fluorescent light can often distort the colors and tones in your photos.

Also, you can learn how to make an inexpensive light stand out of an old tripod here.

4. Setting the Stage: Plates, Trays, Bowls, and Baskets

When you first begin taking food photographs, you’ll probably start out by working with the plates and tableware you already use in your everyday life. But eventually, you may get bored and want to expand your choice of culinary settings and backdrops to better compliment your food compositions.

If so, a visit to a local thrift shop or garage sale can be a great way to inexpensively purchase a variety of single plates, bowls, baskets, pitchers, and trays to liven things up in your photos. The national U.S. chain Tuesday Morning (and other closeout retailers) are also a good source to try.

5. Think About What Story You Want Your Pictures to Tell

Every photo tells a story, so before you take a photo of a memorable meal or visually striking food combination you’ll want to decide what your “story” for each photo will be.

Is the story the vivid colors of the food you are photographing? The mouthwatering way the cheese captures the light as it melts on top of a sinfully, juicy burger? The shape of the meal itself and its visual relationship to the plate on which it is staged? The country in which the dish’s flavors are commonly found (ie. Italy, Hungary, or Greece)? The texture of rough, peasant bread, topped with a constellation of golden sesame seeds?

Use the story ideas you come up with as visual cues to help you come up with exciting ideas for props and plating concepts to use in your photographs.

Do you want to display the peasant bread on a standard plate, or would it look better staged on a rough hewn butcher block or cutting board, or nestled in a basket? Would you prefer to photograph that sushi in closeup on a shining stainless steel cookie sheet, a traditional Japanese plate, or artfully positioned on a clean river stone? What about photographing that macaroni and cheese right in the pot, or that pizza while it’s still on its wooden peel? Should you photograph those fruits singly, in pairs, or by the dozen piled up in a bowl?

6. A Few Practical Food Presentation Ideas

You can brush a little olive oil over vegetables (watercolor or clean small paint brushes will work) to give them a warm, buttery sheen.

Don’t forget to dip or brush a little citric acid (a little lemon juice works well) on the exposed cut portion of apples, pears, peaches, avocados, etc. to keep them from turning brown before you can take your photos.

A small water mister (usually $2 or less) can be used to perk up raw vegetables and salad greens in between shots. You can also put a large bowl of ice under a staged plate of cold foods to help keep them fresh looking until you are ready to take your photographs.

7. A Final Note

Lastly, don’t be afraid to try new things and play around with ideas. Once you get comfortable taking your own photographs, it’s surprisingly fun and satisfying.

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If you have a food blog and are interested in sharing your blog and meeting others who are passionate about food, you’ll want to join the the Featured Publisher Program at Foodbuzz, a large online community of foodies and food bloggers excited about food, cooking, and the culinary arts.

Since joining Foodbuzz as a Featured Publisher, there’s been a noticeable jump in traffic on this site as well as many new readers!

Best of all, through Foodbuzz we’ve been fortunate enough to communicate with a wide variety of interesting people who are equally passionate about food, as well as to find and contribute reviews of restaurants in our local area and around the world.

Foodbuzz is also an excellent way for food bloggers and foodies to conveniently subscribe to and follow the writing of their favorite bloggers as well as to share and make comments on their favorite posts.

Another great Foodbuzz feature is their collection of thousands of recipes on the site.

How to Join and Learn More:

If you have a food blog and would like to find out more about joining Foodbuzz as a Featured Publisher, all you have to do is click the following link to fill out the short Foodbuzz Referral Form here.

The Foodbuzz Team can then contact you as soon as possible with the details!

(Of course, joining the Foodbuzz Featured Publisher Program is free!)

Or, simply contact shannon@foodbuzz.com with the following information:

Full name:
Full name of referral: (Just tell them Doug from Hugging the Coast sent you)
Title of your blog:
Your blog’s web address:
Preferred email (or phone number):
Current Advertising program (if any):
Estimated Monthly Page Views (if you know):

See you on Foodbuzz!

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