Kitchen Play is devoted to connecting food bloggers and PR professionals through sponsored events such as the Progressive Party, the SideCar Series, the Pampered Pantry and more. Participating bloggers are compensated for their work creating original recipes or reviewing products.
Progressive Party
Each month Kitchen Play hosts a unique Progressive Party with six talented food bloggers assigned one of the following courses: cocktail, amuse bouche, salad, appetizer/soup, entrée (main course) and dessert. All six bloggers are challenged to incorporate the same product or kitchen tool into six wildly different courses.
Each Progressive Party is a sponsored event. Six new bloggers are chosen to participate each month. Each month Kitchen Play also features a back-end contest to involve as many additional bloggers as possible. This allows for maximum visibility for all participating within the food community while also creating instant viral marketing for the sponsor.
SideCar Series
A play on location, the SideCar series lives in the sidebar of Kitchen Play and will pair smaller groups of bloggers with sponsors and products to create themed events and recipes. Think Halloween, Baby Shower, Mardi Gras. These events will rotate on a regular basis.
Pampered Pantry
Kitchen Play offers a foodie gift guide called the Pampered Pantry. This directory of items features high-end, hard-to-source and gourmet products that are sure to make any gourmand sit up and salivate. No run-of-the-mill directory, the Pampered Pantry includes reviews of the products written by your fellow food bloggers. In this way the Pampered Pantry provides a first-hand account of working with an exotic ingredient or essential kitchen tool, so you can make an informed decision about which to add to your personal wish list.
Contact
If you are interested in participating in the culinary events at Kitchen Play, please consider entering the Progressive Party contests. Not only will you support your fellow bloggers and put your work in front of the PR world, but you just might win fabulous prizes and cold hard cash. If you would also like to be considered for an assignment, please visit the Contact page and fill out all the applicable fields.
- Casey Benedict, Founder of Kitchen PLAY
Kitchen Play was created by Casey Benedict to support the food blogging community, of which she is a huge fan. Her other food-related projects include TasteStopping, which publishes rejected food photography, and Eat, Write, Retreat, an intensive learning weekend for food bloggers created in partnership with Robyn Webb. She also has a successful ready-to-bake cookie business, two wonderful daughters, and one very patient husband who usually doubles as household chef. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from The University of Michigan and an MFA in Screenwriting from Emerson College.
