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Brown Bag ItCHOW and Good Magazine ask: What’s in your lunch bag? |
CHOW has partnered with Good Magazine on a project: Create the best possible lunch that you can bring to work (or to school, or on a Boeing 737). Buy stuff or make stuff, but make sure it all fits into a lunch-size brown paper bag. Send Good a picture of your ideal lunch, along with the recipes for the things you made and a list of the things you bought. Extra credit if everything is homemade. Extra extra credit if you use CHOW’s member recipe upload.
THE ASSIGNMENT
Make a tasty brown-bag lunch.
THE REQUIREMENTS
A picture of the lunch and the recipes.
THE DETAILS
Email your submissions to projects@goodmagazine.com.
Is there a prize?
Submission deadline?
I'm confused. Why is Chow having this contest? Afterall, a Chow column spcifically told people NOT to bring lunch to work. Here is a portion of the column.
You shouldn’t bring lunch, because that could suggest you’re not completely focused on your work. People will know that you chose to spoon chicken fricassee into a container rather than get to the office five minutes earlier.
Another reason not to bring your own lunch is that it sets you apart. “It means you can never go to lunch with anyone,” Langford says. “It sends a signal: ‘Don’t invite me to go out with you.’”
Hmmmmmmmm
Equally confuzzled by the Good Magazine alliance.
Chowhound repeatedly discouraged charity mentions
Good Magazine is all about being charitable.
On the other hand, maybe you can teach each other something :)
Hey Chow, wake up! We're waiting for answers.
Bringing things on airplanes these days would change the rules. Can't bring soup, or an open container of hot sauce or whatever condiment you may take to work. So, are we supposed to factor that in, too?
Do you think a really hot sauce (Dave's Insanity) could be considered a weapon by TSA?
The prize: Good features the winners in an issue. Good is bi-monthly and this is for their March-April issue, so you can submit through the end of April.
Seems to me where this contest misses the mark is it ignores all the reasons people typically brown-bag it: saving money and time.
Of course 'tasty' is important, but a sack lunch that focuses on that factor alone is not very helpful.
Re: food on airplanes--when I travel with my son, I typically include quite a bit of food. That way in case of whiney babe or worn-out mama, we can can just pop something open and eat easily in our room.
Canned beans and corn, boil-in-the-bag rice (to make in the coffee maker) and peanut butter sandwiches have gotten through.
Yogurt and jar of pb do not (though she offered to take me to the back of the line, let me spread it on the bread and go through again).
Outcome? As a Good mag reader I don't recall seeing "what's in your lunch bag" during last months issue....