Get featured in Durga Puja Food Festival

8 September 2009 3,064 views 30 Comments

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“Prano Bhoriye Trisha Hariye

More aaro aaro aaro dao pran|

Tabo bhubane tabo bhabone

More aaro aaro aaro dao sthan|| ”

15 days to go for the biggest Bong festival of the year. Yes you have guessed it right, its Durga Puja time. And to mark the occasion, we at Cook Like a Bong are organizing an event, “Durga Puja Food Festival”. [Logo Courtesy: Dr. Satyaki Basu]

Durga-Puja-FF-Logo

About Durga Puja

Autumn brings in a series of festivities. Among all these festivals the four day long Durga Puja or Dusshera is the most important and the most prominent social festival among Hindus. Durga Puja is mainly celebrated in the Eastern parts of India. Other states of the country (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad) and even in different countries have started celebrating the worship of the goddess of power. Durga Puja is the most significant social, cultural and even economic event of the year.

Buying new clothes, going pandal hopping, pushpanjali (showering flowers at the goddess), the sound of dhak (Bengali drum), the dhunuchi dance, and the immersion dance are an integral part of the Durga Puja festival. It is the time of homecoming, meeting friends and relatives, eating out, eating whatever you wish, a big and long smile. This is the time of publishing of the “Sharadiya Sankha” or “Pujabarshiki” (the festival collection of literary works) featuring works of both established and not so established poets and authors. And, here we are with our Sharadiya Event for this year.

eBook Announcement

Plus, we’ll create an e-book to celebrate the culinary side of this autumn festival. The eBook will feature mouthwatering recipes and photographs, useful anecdotes and notes and of course some free publicity for the featured authors.

Get featured in the eBook

Please send in your entries for the event. There is no limit to the number of recipes you send, nor is there any restriction on what you send. The recipes may be Bengali (preferably but not necessarily) or any other cuisine, vegetarian or non-vegetarian, starters, soups, salads, entrée, or dessert. Those who don’t want their recipes to be published in the eBook will see those only in the round-up posted at the end of this month in our blog. The recipes in the eBook will have due credit to their authors.

Sending entries to this event makes you eligible to be a part of the eBook. So, hurry and send in your entries as soon as possible.

We invite you to be a part of the celebrations. And the eBook.

Why should you participate?

Free Publicity to a wide audience (This site currently has 15000+ pageviews a month)
Your recipe will be a part of the eBook, and thus your recipe will have offline access, and will bring back more readers to your blog
The joy of being ‘published’
Sheer joy of helping a fellow blogger in her project

How do I benefit?

Releasing an eBook is my long pending project. And what better occasion that Durga Puja?
E-book means offline access, spreading the word via email and doc sharing. And thus, more ‘comeback’ readers
Yet another way to celebrate Sharodotsav

Event Rules:

Please post recipes on your blog along with a track back to this post
Optional: Please use the event logo
If you want to send us any archived entries please update the post with a link to this event so that more people get to know about it

You don’t need to repost it. Search engines don’t like duplicate content and that’s why you should avoid it. Here’s a link if you want to learn more about why and how’s of duplicate content.

If you have a draft recipe that you would like to send us, that’s okay. Just ensure two points:

your blog’s side bar has the event link/logo; and
when you publish this draft, there’s a the event link/ logo is present in the post

Sending a recipe photograph is compulsory. [You can learn more about food photography here]
If you don’t have a blog and yet want to participate, you’re welcome. Just send in your recipes, preferably with an image of the end product to the mentioned mail id.

Send in your entries to bengalicuisine@gmail.com with “Durga Puja Food Festival” as the subject.

3. Last date 22^nd September 2009, 11:59pm IST

Details Required:

Your name:
Blog name:
Blog URL:
Recipe:
Recipe URL:
What type of dish (eg: starter, soup, entrée, dessert):
Cuisine (Andhra, Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya etc):
Any memories associated with the dish (optional):
Any special decorations you created for the festival (optional):

Also, the following if you want the recipes to be enlisted in the eBook, send in your:

Food Photograph
Your profile pic
About you

Bonus

A winner will be chosen for this event and will be awarded with a prize (to be declared later). Evaluation criteria – ease of preparation, suitability to the festival, relevance of the photograph and notes beyond recipe.

Should there be any other criteria for evaluation?

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