GateHouse News Service has a callout ad you can use to request readers' decadent recipes for Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, coming up March 8.
We suggest running this callout from Feb. 20 to March 3 and running the recipes in print by March 7.
Ways to maximize this callout's potential:
-- In conjunction with this callout, ask readers what foods they will try to give up for Lent, and what foods they couldn't go without. Since Fat Tuesday is meant to be one last day of feasting before the season of fasting, what would readers choose as a "last meal"?
-- King Cake is a traditional component of a Mardi Gras feast. Provide a recipe for readers' Fat Tuesday celebrations.
-- Look ahead to Lent and ask for readers' meatless recipes. Be sure to run calendar listings of local churches and clubs that will have Friday fish frys, soup nights and other vegetarian meal events until Easter.
What other ideas do you have for using this callout? Let me know, and I'll post the idea on my blog.
GateHouse News Service has a callout ad you can use to request readers' decadent recipes for Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, coming up March 8.
We suggest running this callout from Feb. 20 to March 3 and running the recipes in print by March 7.
Ways to maximize this callout's potential:
-- In conjunction with this callout, ask readers what foods they will try to give up for Lent, and what foods they couldn't go without. Since Fat Tuesday is meant to be one last day of feasting before the season of fasting, what would readers choose as a "last meal"?
-- King Cake is a traditional component of a Mardi Gras feast. Provide a recipe for readers' Fat Tuesday celebrations.
-- Look ahead to Lent and ask for readers' meatless recipes. Be sure to run calendar listings of local churches and clubs that will have Friday fish frys, soup nights and other vegetarian meal events until Easter.
What other ideas do you have for using this callout? Let me know, and I'll post the idea on my blog.
