Did you know that the typical student will consume 3000 school meals from kindergarten through 12th grade? Kind of opens your eyes to how important school food really is. Typically I review cookbooks here, but when Blog Her asked me to review Lunch Wars by Amy Kalafa I jumped at the chance. School food has been a hot topic recently. From Jamie Oliver’s revolution to Michelle Obama’s Healthy Hunger Free Kid’s Act, awareness of the school food issues is at an all time high. Amy Kalafa really did her research to provide a great resource full of inspiring stories and shocking facts all about the nutrition related health of children. Read more
Hey friends, I have exciting news! After months of recruiting, planning, and networking, the Seattle Tastecasting team launched with an amazing event at Chao Bistro on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Chao Bistro set the bar INCREDIBLY high for future Tastecastings. We had 18 courses to make sure we got a sampling of their breakfast, lunch and dinner menus plus dessert and drinks. If you missed my previous post on Tastecasting, basically I head up a team of people in the Seattle area who are well connected in social media. A restaurant or food establishment gives us a free sampling of their menu, in return we tweet, blog, post on facebook, flickr and any other network we’re a part of. It’s a great way to promote local businesses and a wonderful experience for the team. Tastecasting started in Columbus, Ohio but there are now teams all over the US.
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Here’s a quick look in pictures at getting to the Foodbuzz Food Blogger Festival in San Francisco. Can you tell I was excited? That was 5am!
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Twelve Grain Tropical Fruit French Toast Bites
Last week a large package was in between our screen and front door. Inside the box were two loaves of bread from Nature’s Pride!
Nature's Pride 12 Grain Bread
I love getting to try free food items simply because I’m a food blogger. I have to be honest that there are some things I’ve tried that I wish I hadn’t, and I don’t bother to write about those. But when I get a food product that I love, and am able to do something really spectacular with it, it’s so exciting and I can’t wait to post it. Today I finally got to play around with the bread and man am I glad I did.
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Foodbuzz and Visa group at Springhill
Being a Foodbuzz Featured Publisher definitely has its perks. We get free food in the mail to try, we get to participate in 24, 24, 24 events, and we get the occasional free dinner with other food bloggers. One of my favorite things about Foodbuzz is it’s not just an advertising company, it’s truly a community. E-mailing back and forth with the Foodbuzz employees is a lot like emailing back and forth with friends. So it was really exciting to get picked to attend the Foodbuzz and Visa Signature dinner at Springhill in Seattle, knowing that Alexa and Ryan (the girl) from Foodbuzz would be there. Read more
