Kneading Conference West (long)

September 21, 2012October 29, 2013 ~ admin ~ 1 Comment

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 2nd annual Kneading Conference West, which happened to be right here in Mount Vernon at the WSU Research and Extension Center. I was thrilled to get a press pass for it, as the conference sold out some time ago. This is an amazing event!

The remarkable thing about this conference was how happy everyone was. It was more like a music festival than a professional conference. Everyone there was equally obsessed with bread and grains and ready to talk with everyone else about it.

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IFBC: a brief food report

September 1, 2010 ~ admin ~ 4 Comments

So I went to IFBC again this year (the International Food Blogger Conference, for those not in the know). There are going to be a lot of other roundups out there, and I didn’t stay for the entire conference, so I’m just going to put up a few pictures of food here, I think.

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conference food

May 19, 2009January 15, 2013 ~ admin ~ 7 Comments

In general, conference food is not something to write home about. When it’s a conference of food bloggers, though, it most definitely does get written about, so there’s some incentive to make it exciting! Here are some of the things we were fed at Foodista’s International Food Blogger Conference (for more details, click on the photos):

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tired, but with serious swag

May 18, 2009January 15, 2013 ~ admin ~ 4 Comments

Being recently returned from the first International Food Blogger Conference in Seattle, I am, let me tell you, pooped. And I have to go to work today, too. But the conference was amazing, with great food and people and information, as well as the best conference swag anyone has ever seen. Here’s what my haul looked like, once I got it all unpacked:

Most of this stuff was donated to the conference by Sur La Table, an amazingly generous thing for them to do. I’m looking forward to settling it all into my kitchen and trying it out. I’m particularly excited about the Shun knife, the wine glasses, Ruth Reichl’s new book and a spiffy little Scanpan.

My brain is not so easily unpacked.