I’m suddenly a contestant!

While the competition is daunting – a lot of other Foodbuzz Featured Publishers have entered with enthusiasm – I thought I’d jump in with both feet anyway.  Let me explain.

Foodbuzz is hosting a competition of its Featured Bloggers called “Project Food Blog 2010″ and I decided “what the heck” and joined in the fray.  It begins September 20, and while it’s a serious competition, it looks like it’s going to be quite a lot of fun! The primary issue I will have in competing against passionate food bloggers who also happen to be extraordinary writers is that my focus is, by its very nature, on wine. My food blog, MirePoix Vegas, languishes, sadly neglected for the time being and is certainly not contest worthy.  Yet.

This contest is kind of  like a reality show; if you’ve seen Master Chef, Hell’s Kitchen, or (especially) American Idol, you already understand how it works.  A bunch of people show up to audition, the judges brutally, sneeringly, (or mercifully) expel most, and what is hopefully the cream rises for the subsequent entertainment competition.

Am I out of my mind?

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Testing all of the categories.  I think we’ve finally beat the disastrous server meltdown we had last week, and quite a journey.

Vegas Wineaux is being launched as a brand new site, and the old posts will return as we filter through old databases one at a time.  And it will definitely be one at a time because of the complexity of grabbing the old stuff.  The great thing is that at least it’s there, even if it has to go through several steps to be usable again.

Stay tuned!