OMG! I just made Tastespotting on my first try with my pumpkin bread pudding photo and recipe, not knowing they actually reject many submissions! If you Google “tastespotting + rejections”, you’ll see countless bloggers pour their frustration out on their blogs on being “gently rejected by TS.” (Click here and here, for example). Apparently, in the food blogging world, it’a medium-big deal and I didn’t even know it. On a whim, I registered, carelessly wrote a caption, added my blog link and hit submit. Within two hours, I knew something was up because my wordpress stats were going through the roof. I was expecting it to take 24 hours to be notified of the status of my submission, but look here, I made it… Click here to see my post. Enter “pumpkin” in the search field found on the upper right hand side. Yeeaay, for me!!! It’s nice to be appreciated once in a while….ok, I’m done acting like a real food geek!
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Congratulations! What an honor. I just started a Food Blog myself and would love to make it on Tastespotting one day…
Go you!!!!! Well-deserved!
Congrats, Daisy! It’s a delicious recipe. 🙂
daisy! that is wonderful – congrats!
Good for you! I get rejected from them like it’s my job. Try Foodgawker, too.
Thanks! Gosh, I love your photos. I can’t imagine why they’d reject any of them. I’ll give Foodgawker a try, too.
Foodgawker tends to be more forgiving. I get dinged a lot for composition. I know I need to tighten it up and I like to think of the rejections as motivation to keep improving.
I submitted the same two on both TS and Foodgawker and I’m 2 for 2 on Tastespotting and 1 for 2 on Foodgawker. Maybe I’ll try to submit more later, but I don’t have anymore “quality” photos at the moment. Thanks for the Foodgawker suggestion.
Congratulations! Although I am not surprised, everything you have written about sounds fabulous. I am sure I am gaining weight just reading your blogs. Janet
Congratulations, Daisy. Well done. — Sharyn
Thanks, Sharyn! I’m just being a big food geek right now.