Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged bloggers, blogging, IFBC, Molly Wizenberg, Orangette, publishers on August 29, 2010| 5 Comments »
Panel
Victoria von Biel, executive editor Bon Appetit
Kirsty Melville, president, book division Andrews-McMeel
Molly Wizenberg, Orangette, “A Homemade Life”
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
“What I discovered as a blogger is that could write even when I didn’t want to,” says Molly Wizenberg, blogger and author.
Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged IFBC, Molly Moon's ice cream, Seattle on August 29, 2010| 5 Comments »
My expectations were low. This was a food cart, after all, and I’m from Boston, one of the states that consumes the most ice cream in the nation. “Lavender honey, please,” I said to Molly Moon‘s ice cream man. A small mound of white with flecks of tiny purple was pushed through the window above my head. I reached for it and then slid the cool cream onto my tongue with the tiny, coarse wooden spoon.
Oh my. Hello, fields of France.
Molly Moon's ice cream truck
Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged food photography, IFBC, Penny De Los Santos, photo, Saveuer on August 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Penny De Los Santos, documentary photographer, Saveur, National Geographic
Penny De Los Santos @ IFBC food truck lunch.
“I want to interject excitement and passion about food into my photos,” says Penny De Los Santos who has photo illustrated six cookbooks. “If I make you want to grab and eat that food, then I’ve done my job.” (more…)
Posted in Cookbook reviews, Food Blogger Conference, tagged IFBC, Intellectual Ventures, Modernist Cuisine, Nathan Myhrvold on August 29, 2010| 2 Comments »
Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, Modernist Cuisine, Intellectual Ventures, CEO
Nathan Myhrvold chats with IFBC bloggers.
“Some people say sous-vide sucks the soul out of cooking,” says Nathan Myhrvold. “We disagree! It’s about the art and science of creating great food.”
Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged Full Circle Farm, IFBC, Oregon truffles, Theo Chocolate on August 28, 2010| 1 Comment »
Panel
Debra Music, Theo Chocolate
Andrew Stout, Full Circle Farm, CEO
Jack Czarnecki, Oregon White Truffle Oil
Cacao pods in Belize.
“Companies and consumers have to be willing to pay more for better produced chocolate,” says Debra Music of Theo Chocolate, a Fair Trade certified chocolate producer in Seattle.
Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged FTC, IFBC, Robert Schoroeder, Robin Goldstein on August 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Moderator
Barnaby Dorfman, Foodista.com, CEO
Panel
Robin Goldstein, IP attorney, food blogger
Robert Schroeder, FTC
Barnaby Dorfman
Robin Goldstein, blogger, IP attorney
Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged "The Sharper the Knife the Less You Cry, IFBC, Kathleen Flinn on August 28, 2010| 1 Comment »
Kathleen Flinn, author “The Sharper Your Knife, the Less you Cry”
Lemon writing exercise. M.K. Fisher is great at using verbs in the right places. Take a page of hers and write down all the verbs. She rarely uses the passive voice, she likes movement and sound.
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Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged IFBC, search engine optimization, SEO on August 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Panel
Barnaby Dorfman, Foodista.com, CEO
Joy Victory, WordPress.com, editorial czar
Mani Dhillon, UrbanSpoon.com, general manager (more…)
Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged " Amy Sherman, "Will Write for Food, Diane Jacob, IFBC, Kristine Kidd on August 28, 2010| 6 Comments »
Moderator:
Amy Sherman, author, blogger, recipe developer
Speakers:
Dianne Jacob “Will Write for Food”
Kristine Kidd, former editor at Bon Appetit
Kristine Kidd
“My personal recipe style is to teach cooks independence,” says Kristine Kidd, a former editor at Bon Appetit.
Posted in Food Blogger Conference, tagged IFBC on August 28, 2010| 2 Comments »
The International Food Blogger Conference is off to a great start. We got a huge bag of cookery “swag” that includes everything from a smiley faced spatula, pansy shaped cupcake tins, a corn on the cob peeler, to cookbooks, juicers, and a coffee press. It was like Christmas! So much for traveling light.
The food vendors here were excellent and tasty but the conversations with the other bloggers were the highlight of the evening for me. (more…)
Kitchen Report 