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I love to read Is My Blog Burning? so that I can stay updated on all of the contests circulating around the blogosphere. I'm usually shy about participating (though I did enter a cupcake contest just once), but I think it's great when people create dishes and posts for the sake of the blogging community, and I love to see the results. Anyway, Is My Blog Burning? alerted me today to a contest called Haiku That Blog, in which contestants write a haiku poem about a particular blog and one lucky winner receives a fabulous prize. The blog for the contest is Lunch Bucket Bento, which I'd never seen before, but it looks adorable.

The contest got me thinking, however, about haiku for Slashfood and food blogging in general. I wrote three. My favorite is this one (note: for an English major, I was never very good at writing poetry):

Read it for Breakfast,
Lunch, Dinner, and in between
Slashfood – keeps me fed

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Every once in a while, we like to get a little up and close personal with our bloggers. We've already met Bob Sassone, Ellen Slattery, Shayna Glick, Sarah J. Gim and Alanna Kaufman. Now let's meet the latest addition to our team, Julie Tilsner. -- Marisa McClellan

Do you have a personal blog?
Who doesn't these days? Mine is Badhomecooking.

What is your day job, or rather, what do you do when you're not food blogging?
I mostly write for Parenting and American Baby magazines, but I edit a variety of AOL-owned blogs, as well. I also have a few book projects going. And the obligatory screenplay (I do live in L.A. you know). Really, I'd rather write about food these days.

How long have you been blogging with Slashfood and what is your favorite post?
I've been here one week! So no favorite post yet, but I've been a huge fan of Slashfood's Sarah Gim for way longer than that. She's so sassy! I link to her Delicious Life from my blog. We need to meet for drinks or something. I promise not to disparage her dates.

Do you have any non-food-related, non-blogging hobbies?
Blogging cuts deeply into my flamenco dancing, flea marketing and kid-chasing time...

Not every foodie does, so we have to ask: Do you cook?
Sigh. Refer back to question #1.

Today featured picture is nothing more than a plate of vegetables. But sometimes (at least in my book), there is nothing more beautiful than the fresh, vibrant colors and shapes of veggies. I've actually been passing this image by for the last few days, but each time I saw it, it caught my eye and called out to me. And so here it is!

It is one in a series of images from the night that Susan from Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy first followed the recipe for Jap Chae from Jaden's Steamy Kitchen. The rest of the pictures look equally delectable.

Remember to join the Slashfood Flickr group and add your pictures to our pool, so that we can feature your gorgeous food images on Food Porn Daily.

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Chances are, the vast majority of you reading this post right now are familiar with Flickr (and if you're not, the quick explanation is that it is a photo sharing website with lots of ways to engage in acts of community). What you may not know is that Slashfood actually has our own Flickr group. It's been around since late summer of 2005 and has more than 5,000 gorgeous, drool-inducing images of food in all states of preparedness.

The amazing thing is that even though we've neglected the group in the recent months, people have still been adding some amazing images to it. What we want to do is to get even more of you involved in adding gorgeous food photography (and accompanying recipes, if you want to share) to the pool so that we can bring back the Photo of the Day feature. We know that there is lots of good cooking, baking, shopping, preserving, roasting and braising going on out there and we want to see some of it. If your photo is selected to be featured, we'll get in touch to let you know, give you full credit for the image/recipe and link to your site/blog (if you have one).

And now, to whet your appetite for all the food gorgeousness that will be coming with the Photo of the Day, the image you see above was submitted to our Flickr pool yesterday by Jennifer at Bake or Break. She talks about these chocolate-filled cupcakes on her blog as well as her love of vanilla paste and her dislike of frosting. And now I want a cupcake!

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A few months ago, Sarah showed us some photos taken by James Yu, a former Slashfood writer, of his visit to French Laundry. Now Kevin, a Slashfood reader, has shared his own experience at Thomas Keller's world class restaurant with us. Though a few of the items are duplicate, I thought the majority of pictures (and individual courses) were unique enough that we could afford to take another peek. His tab? Over $600 per person, which included the extensive tasting menu, drinks, tax and tip.

In case you aren't aware, Thomas Keller recently won the title of Outstanding Restaurateur at the 2007 James Beard Foundation Awards, and French Laundry was named 4th best restaurant in the world by Restaurant Magazine, scoring as "Best of the Americas."

Needless to say, this is pretty much the ultimate in food porn. I've included a few more of Kevin's photos after the jump, but you can visit his entire collection (with full descriptions of what you are looking at) at his website via the 'read' link below.

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