Korean Food Blogging Contest from Simon and Martina Stawski on Vimeo . Hi everyone! KoreaTaste’s Spring 2011 Korean Food Blogging Contest is underway. The good people at KTO have asked me to help let everyone know about the contest and get people participating. Simon of Eatyourkimchi and I worked on the fall contest and it was pretty successful. We had 150 bloggers join and they contributed over 400 posts. I got to meet the top prize winner, Mr. Michael Limbo of Planet Cerritos  Blog and it was great to show him the great eats of Korea. Above is the last year's video that Simon made for the contest. (Sorry, we didn't have time to update it) The 2nd and 3rd prizes are different, but the rules are the same. Like last time, to win, a good portion of determining the winning entry is based on the votes, so these are some buttons and banners you can put on your site to get your readers to vote for your entry. Below each image you’ll see the code for the image. Just copy it...

A Taste of Korea: Korean Food Gift Sets When we were approached by KTO to develop prizes for the Koreataste.org Blogging Contest , we were ecstatic. We thought this was a way to show the beauty of Korean culture and cuisine though an physical gift. We wanted to give something that showed off Korean craftsmanship and ingredients because there are things in Korea that can't be found in other parts of the world. These are test shots of the prizes that we have participants for the blogging contest and they are gifts for VIP visitors to Korea. On the top of the box, the hangul, 손맛, literally means "hand taste," but the idea is that the hands can enhance the flavor of a dish. The hands are also the most sensitive instruments for cooking and Korean master chefs can distinguish a taste simply by the texture and feel. It's a skill that requires countless years of experience. Also inside the box, we have wrapped unique Korean ingredients in Korean traditional cloth a...