Food Blog Forum - Orlando round two

March 20, 2012 by Monica in Conferences

This past weekend, Tom, the little man and I packed up our bags and headed to Orlando, Florida. Mickey’s town (known to the masses as Walt Disney World) hosted over 100 food bloggers, who gathered this past weekend for the 5^th Food Blog Forum Conference.

Now, as they would say, “this was not my first rodeo.” I have been lucky enough to attend two other FBF conferences, and have been “wowed” by both, so riding into Orlando on Friday, I knew that no matter what, we were going to have fun, learn a whole bunch of information and eat luscious food.

But, you guys, those high expectations were nothing compared to what we encountered. This conference was out of this world. I guess what they say is true: practice makes perfect. The team that put together this year’s conference must have decided they were going to put on an event full of non-stop magic, so we could spend most of the weekend with our mouths hanging open!

Photography Workshop and oh, yeah The Food Blog Forum Conference in Orlando

April 14, 2011 by Monica in Conferences, Photography, Travel

Last weekend I did not see the inside of my kitchen. Instead, I was in sunny Orlando, eating huge amounts of food provided by great sponsors like Whole Foods Markets and McCormick & Schmick’s, learning a tons of things from industry recognized stars and meeting the most welcoming group of people I have ever meet.

If you were not following my tweets throughout the weekend, then you would not have known that I was attending the third Food Blog Forum Conference which took place in my home state.

WE HAD A BLAST!

Food Blog Forum Atlanta – Take two!

September 16, 2010 by Monica in Conferences, Miscellaneous, Photography, Restaurant, Travel

After 2 days of basically living with my Kleenex box clutched to myself and glasses upon glasses of liquid and very good, knock you out, cold medicine - I’m out of bed. I still do not feel 100%, but there is so much sleeping and bad TV I can take – Bravo I’m looking at you, no more Housewives nonsense and shame on you for getting me hooked to Rachel Zoe.

When I stared to write about the Food Blog Forum Conference, I thought of giving you a long longer post about everything that happen in Atlanta, but with over 100 bloggers in attendance, I’m sure most have already seen plenty of recaps about how much fun we had, how much information we got from all of the great speakers, the amazing food we all ate (I’m so craving those pork belly tacos from chef Kevin Rathbun, which I’m totally going to duplicate) and the great goodies in our swag bags, which I had to ship separately because there was no way I could come up with an valuable explanation for the knife at ATL airport.

But, I do want to give out a shout to the amazing people I had the pleasure of meeting and what stayed with me from each one of them. Let’s start with the obvious ones: