02.10.10
foodie events – a synopsis
I have been going to all these inspiring, fun foodie events! I kept meaning to blog about them but I’ve been super busy with my other careers and playing housewife (I’m a slow chopper and a perfectionist. Not an efficient combination). Anyway – first there was the free Word of Mouth event about Online Media and the Future of Food Writing. It’s amazing how many people turned up. Housing Works was packed. I was really excited to see Ed Levine from Serious Eats and it was inspiring, but a bit overwhelming, to hear how many other food sites are out there. I guess it’s good that my blog has a clearly defined niche or I’d be even more lost in the shuffle.
The Boyfriend and I went to Hill Country to use my Blackboard Eats coupon when I stumbled into a foodblogger party, courtesy of Hagan Blount and his 93 Plates project. I met some other interesting people – hello Diva Jackie! – and realized that I should be networking a lot more if I want to make any headway at all.
Which is why I actually paid to go to the Culintro Future of Food Journalism seminar. It was, as all verbal discussions of food and writing tend to be, a little bit omphaloskeptic, but I actually learned some stuff this time. I’m not a trained journalist, though I’ve read enough books and issues of the Economist and New Yorker to have a pretty good idea of the ethical rules. It was nice to discover that I have been instinctively following them the whole time.
I like being more involved in the foodwriting world. The Boyfriend is helping me improve the website and I am thinking of new things I can do. I might write a little more about things I cook at home, since I do that nearly every night, and I think I will try to stick to a posting schedule. I’ll throw my hat over the fence and say Mondays and Thursdays will be the magic days from now on. Tomorrow is my birthday, so there, by publishing this I am ahead already!
