Squash Birds Of A Feather

© Irvin Lin, Eat the Love

Those of y'all familiar amongst competitive yellow squelch carving know how intense these contests tin shipping away get, together with an number I late co-hosted amongst Allrecipes inward Seattle was no different. The tension was together with hence thick, y'all could've cutting it amongst a swag-bag paring knife.

This battle royal took house at the decision of BlogHerFood weekend, together with an exclusive grouping of foodies were invited based on their blogging experience, passion for edible art, together with to a much greater extent, their availability.

The subject of the twenty-four hours was centered on my mascot together with lifelong friend, the squelch bird. After regaling them amongst the strange together with to a greater extent than oftentimes than non truthful story of how it came to be, together with demonstrating how I brand the bird, our honored attendees laid to piece of job creating their ain renditions for fun together with fabulous prizes.

Despite bottomless Mimosas, I idea the birds  these “gordiators” produced were extraordinary. Here are a few of the highlights. 

© Irvin Lin, Eat the Love

I exclusively had my prison theater cellphone telephone to cause got pictures with, together with hence the blurry shots are mine. Thankfully my friend Irvin at Eat the Love was there, together with graciously shared or together with hence of the pictures he took.

The winning plane was from Michael Procopio, the blogger/food author behind the ever entertaining Food for the Thoughtless. The classic combination of huge neb together with fabulous chapeau proved irresistible to the judges. More subtle was the upright posture, which gave the plane an virtually majestic stance.

In improver to existence a squelch plane boss, the hilarious Mr. Procopio also gives skillful Twitter, together with hence last certain to check him out there. By the way, last prepared to expect materials upwards on Wikipedia.

Speaking of fabulous, the inimitable Linda Nicholson, aka Salty Seattle, was also inward attendance. As y'all tin shipping away see, she was clearly trying to distract the competitor amongst her selection of footwear, which mimicked the bird’s brilliant orangish feet. Did it work? Not really, but who cares? Look at those boots!

© Irvin Lin, Eat the Love

Her squelch birds were virtually equally striking. The saline siren attempted an ambition scene consisting of what appears to last 2 squelch birds trying to province on the same rock. 

Unfortunately, during the luncheon break, or together with hence mayo from her sandwich must cause got fallen on the birds, together with she was disqualified for violating Chapter 3, Section seven of the official rules, which covers inappropriate travel of condiments.

Many attendees utilized "hair" together with other eye-catching accessories to brand an impression. Sean Timberlake from Hedonia tried to describe off the rarely seen cock’s comb/toupee combo; together with DPaul Brown from dpaulbrown.com's follic affectations non exclusively dressed upwards his entry, but also helped dot what sort of cigarette was inward the beak.

© Irvin Lin, Eat the Love

Another favorite was this submission from Andrew Wilder at Eating Rules. I idea it was a smart approach to brand the plane expect similar it was bending over feeding. 

We assumed Andrew was trying to present movement, although he did pass a lot of fourth dimension making certain everyone saw merely how anatomically right the tail halt of his creation was, together with hence in that place may cause got been ulterior motives.

Anyway, nosotros actually did cause got a nifty time, together with I desire to give cheers everyone who participated. Also, a huge cheers to my friends at Allrecipes for hosting together with organizing such a fun event! 

If y'all desire to larn how to brand your rattling ain squelch bird, check out this video, together with equally always, enjoy!

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