I’m just back from Chicago, from BlogHer, the conference for women bloggers. Bea, Jan and I all had such a great time with our panel on Food Photography (HappyKatie live blogged about it here). As someone who isn’t much of a fan of public speaking, I have to say, I had so much fun during this talk, and just wanted to say a big thanks to all the attendees for their great questions and attention. There was so much to cover… far more than was possible in the hour and a half we had, and every few minutes I think of another thing that I wish that I had said. But, I guess that just gives me more stuff to talk about here.

Once again, thanks to all the attendees and to BlogHer and it’s sponsors for asking me to attend.

Leaving Boston on Monday evening, I felt like I had just spent 4 days pouring over my favorite foodie magazines… I was awe-struck, overly full of ideas, and antsy to start getting back into the kitchen and putting even just a little of what I had learned to use. My head still feels a bit like an over-stuffed sausage, but it seems time to start to give you a taste of what went on at the conference.

My personal adventure started a bit earlier than the conference because I am a spaz, and apparently can’t read a schedule. The conference started on Friday, and I knew that I really was not capable of sitting through an afternoon of talks after taking a red-eye flight, so I booked myself on the Wednesday night redeye instead, expecting to have the Thursday to recover before the workshops began. Silly me… the only thing happening on Friday was registration, something that I could have done half asleep. Thankfully, Bea and P were incredibly kind with my extra imposition, and I got to hang with Bea as she whipped up some of her famous tarts. All I can say is that as great as they look on her blog, they even taste better. Bea and I also got to go do some prop shopping, starting at a fabric store, where we both picked out several new and fabulous textures and colors