Sarah had a point when she said that conference food is pretty much always fattening. I am currently at the BlogHer conference, along with a few other people from Weblogs, Inc., and even though the company is wonderful, I can say less for the food. When a hotel prepares fried food for a large group, it is inevitably greasy and heavy, so it was unfortunate that the meals centered on that. Lunch on the first day included fried chicken and dinner was a buffet of fried foods, like egg rolls and dumplings, as well as kebabs slathered in various sauces. There was no salad option at dinner, although there was a cheese plate. Any dinner dissatisfaction was quelled by the open bar, though I did hear some slightly dissatisfied murmuring about the fact that Pepsi, and not Coke, was the hotel's soda of choice. Many women opted for calcium-fortified water instead.
Moving on to more pleasant topics, I already had a chance to meet a couple of food bloggers, including Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen, Elise from Simply Recipes and Erin from Erin's Kitchen, all of whom are just lovely. While I only had a brief time to chat with them, today we are planning to have a small meetup of food bloggers, with many other fellow food-lovers coming to join us, like the bloggers from Megnut and Chez Pim. Doubtless, there will be some commiseration about the food. After our informal meeting, there will also be a whole session dedicated to food and craft blogs, titled "Is a blogger the next Martha Stewart?"
Could a blogger be the next Martha? Maybe the next Rachael Ray or Mario Batali?
Update: Read about day two here.
A fraking amazing Battlestar Galactica cake
Iced Tea 101
Pierogies + cheese + onions + kraut = Parmageddon!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-29-2006 @ 2:07PM
MJ said...
wow would have thoght the food would ne out of this world. Everything fried? I am let down and wasnt even there!!
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7-29-2006 @ 4:19PM
erin said...
First off, Nicole, lovely to meet you two. Secondly, as I just barely choked down 1/2 a veggie burger for lunch here at BlogHer, I have to agree about the food. Fairly disappointing, even for a hotel conference. Shoulda brought a stash of snacks!
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7-30-2006 @ 8:25PM
Nicole Weston said...
It was great to meet you, too, Erin.
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7-31-2006 @ 4:02PM
Kalyn said...
Nic, such a pleasure to meet you. Not only are you such a talented blogger and obviously a great cook, but lovely and charming as well. Hope to see you again.
You were more than generous about the food. We should have gone out more and eaten at the conference less!
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