16 July 2010

Tabloid tacitly ADMITS GUILT, then gives credit to WRONG photo

It's summer, which calls for sipping chilled rosé outdoors (something we never did before going native) and taking advantage of the numerous terrasses Paris has to offer... That means it's time for slowing things down, taking the better part of a week off, watching fireworks, and eating a lot of salad.

From the simple...

Wedge of iceberg with heirloom tomatoes and homemade Thousand
Island dressing and breast of rotisserie chicken
To overly complex attempts at fusion...

An Italian take on classic Vietnamese – post forthcoming
It's time for chill attitudes and chilled veggies. In the meantime, the Huffington Post has quietly rectified their little uncredited content situation by giving me some credit for my work, but not all is rosy in amateur food blogger land.

I had complained rather loudly about not being credited for my awesome cheeseburger photo – more out of cheekiness than anything – and they very quietly went back and gave me credit for the photo. Furthermore, they even gave a link back to my Flickr page!

Our kick-ass burger, with an appropriate photo credit. Yay!
Unfortunately, they were a little overzealous in their corrections, and further gave me credit for the article's lead photo. One of Popeye's fried chicken.

It may say "Tavallai" under the photo, but I assure you,
we did NOT go to Popeye's!
Not that I mind having our noble family name on the front of Huffington Post's food section. But a) there's some other foodie photog out there who's not getting credit for his/her work in the field of 2-dimensional food facsimile, and b) it implies that I have the lousy taste to eat at Popeye's!

Mind you, Popeye's is the "Guilty Pleasure" selection of one of the chefs we madly respect. After reading his Momofuku Cookbook with much delight, David Chang cemented himself as one of our idols quite simply for doing things his way and turning a capricious middle finger at the food establishment. However, I ungraciously disagree with his love of Popeye's. I do admit to having eaten there. But I will not sacrifice the integrity of my endeavors by putting up a photo of carefully arranged "chicken" parts and styrofoam for the world to see.

So please, HuffPo editors, take more than 30 seconds when doing the – you know – editorial part of your job. So I won't look like some dweeb who loves Popeye's.

In the meantime, here's a look back at our rendition of fast food fried chicken: KFC vs. Local & Organic: An Epic Tale.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 July, 2010 09:49

    Undershooting, then overshooting the mark. These people must have had major toilet training issues.

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  2. Anonymous17 August, 2010 18:46

    Hi Alannah, I apologize for the confusion with the photo credit issues here. If you take a look at huffingtonpost.com/food you'll see I'm extremely thorough with our photo credits, including linking to (creative commons) Flickr pages directly from the photo credits. I was on vacation when this entry that I had prepared went up and was not aware it had been overcorrected to falsely attribute the Popeye's photo to you, until I saw this post. Please email me at food@huffingtonpost.com if you'd like to discuss further. I intend for the use of Flickr creative commons images on the HuffPost Food page to be a mutually beneficial experience for both parties so I apologize for the hassle here.

    All best,
    Colin

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