Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Gallo Pinto

Reason: This image is used on both Costa Rica to illustrate what is considered the national dish of the country, gallo pinto. As a hallmark of Tico culture and Costa Rican cuisine, a good quality image of gallo pinto is a key educational facet to any discussion of the culture. This image has been used on the Costa Rica article in the culture section for more than a month, and is the best image of the dish available to Wikipedia. In addition to being fairly high quality, it's the most culturally-accurate photo of those uploaded, since it presents the most common preparation of the dish.
Articles this image appears in: Costa Rica, Gallo Pinto
Creator: Original photographer is James Diggans, and I (Steven Walling) am the uploader. I also cropped the image to its current state as used in the articles.

Support as nominator --Steven Walling (talk) 00:17, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Neither of the captions tell us what exactly is in the plate. The article of Gallo pinto shows the image with the caption "a Costa Rican breakfast with gallo pinto (right)". Therefore I'm understanding this as the Gallo pinto is only the item to the right. What about the rest of the food? Zoo Fari 00:36, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gallo pinto is the rice and bean dish on the right. It would be strange and inaccurate to show the food alone, since it's never served by itself. Steven Walling (talk) 00:43, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 05:25, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]