Food Blog Forum Atlanta- Great new friends, Awesome event
Scott Hair of Steamy Kitchen kicks off the seminar
Food Blog Forum Atlanta seminar was a hit and a wonderful event where new friendships were made. Thank you to the beautiful city of Atlanta, Jaden Steamy Kitchen and Gwen Bunky Cooks for organizing and to all the attendees for making this event a huge success.
A huge shout out goes to the stellar panel of speakers as well. Thank you to John Kessler of Atlanta Journal-Constitution, James Andrews and Lauren Thomas from Everywhere , Cookbook author Virginia Willis, Alisa Barry of Bella Cucina, and Jaden of Steamy Kitchen. Their sessions on Working with Media Outlets and Branding were informative, everyone in the room had pages of notes from all their valuable information. We had a blast sharing two sessions on Food Photography.
Since we launched Food Blog Forum with our friend Jaden from Steamy Kitchenin March 2010, it’s been an amazing journey of community, friendships and learning. Not only have we met some of the most wonderful food writers, publishers and bloggers from all across the country, we’ve learned so much from everyone as well.
The whole Food Blog Forum community is about supporting one another and helping each other and we’re proud that we were able to organize an event where everyone can come together to learn, share and participate.
A final thank you to our sponsors who provided great support and giveaways! Viking Store, Chefs Catalog , Kitchen Aid, Whole Foods, Bella Cucina , Calpahalon, Showcase Photo & Video.
Here’s a list of more write ups and pictures about Food Blog Forum Atlanta!
- Bakerella– Food Blog Forum and New Friends
- Bunky Cooks – Two Thumbs Up!
- Culinary Historians of Atlanta– Steppin’ Out
- Frantastic Food – Food Blog Forum Lights a Fire!
- Holzerian Nation – Food Blog Forum Atlanta
- Indian Simmer – A weekend full of food, food talk and foodies!
- Ingredients Inc. – Wonderful Learning & New Friends
- Mommie Cooks– Food Blog Forum Conference!
- My Sweet Things – Food Blog Forum- Part One- Atlanta Friday Social!
- What Megan’s Making – Food Blog Forum Re-Cap
below: John Kessler, James Andrews, Lauren Thomas and Jaden Hair : Working with Media Outlets & Brands
below: Our Food Photography & Styling session: we tethered a live shoot for the audience to see our workflow
below: Working with Brands: Virginia Willis, Alisa Barry and Jaden Hair
Below: Chef Kevin Rathbun demos his amazing pork belly tacos!
Below: The Viking Store Atlanta hosted our Friday Night Mixer party
Below: Chef Jessica of Viking made fresh pasta for all the attendees. Insanely GOOD.
Below: Hands-on dumpling making with attendees. The dumplings were AWESOME.
Below: Cutie bloggers from Cow Lick Cottage Farm
Below: Warm cookies donated by Tank Goodness. OMG Goodness!
Loved your part of the seminar, went home really excited about taking pictures and I think they look better already. Liked how you explained things in easy to understand terms for the novice. Hope to get so much better at the photo part. Thanks again.
Garlic knots look awesome! I must try to cook it!
What a wonderful seminar. I’m jealous – would have loved to have gone! I hope I can go to the next one. Thanks for such a great write-up about it!
Thanks again for bringing so much to this weekend. I had the best time and learned so much from you both. You’re such delightful people. I’m working on implementing some of what I picked up, and looking forward to next time!
Hi Guys! Begged Jaden to bring FBF to Boston so hope you are on board as well. Looks like a great event and thanks again for your generosity with sharing your photography knowledge. Love to DM you on twitter.
This looks like it was amazing and such a good time. I hope to be able to attend one of these one day. Great job! I’m glad it was so successful!
Todd & Diane ~
You two are just the nicest people ever and I just love the both of you! This event was only my second I’ve attended but it was just jam-packed with such great information, it’s going to take me months to remember/sort it all out. Your photography session was so helpful – I had several ‘light-bulb’ moments and I’m looking forward to putting those tips into action. Again, I thank you for your sweet spirits – looking forward to seeing you again soon (I hope you’re going to BHF10 in San Fran?)! Hugs!
I have to say that this was one of the best seminars I’ve been to. There was very little fluff and I walked away with lots of to-do items. Thanks White on Rice for your sessions on photography. The session on lighting was especially helpful for me. I hope BunkyCooks will plan another one for the ATL.
Meetups like this are by far the best
Seems like everyone had a great time and no one lost any appendages
Thanks for the recap! Looks like a huge success! Glad you had a good time. I have heard rave reviews!
Are you coming to Utah next? Maybe a winter wonderland fbf? Skiing is optional:) I have connections and would love to help plan a fbf in Utah! There are a lot of food bloggers begging for you to come:) Let’s chat:)
Diane and Todd, thank you so much for the wonderful information you passed along during your sessions! I wish I would have had a chance to chat with you about it because it was amazing. Even though I only have a point and shoot right now, the sessions were very beneficial for me and I feel like I am armed with knowledge to achieve better pictures!
Seething with jealousy at those lucky devils who got to attend! Glad to hear it was such a great experience!
Looks awesome!! Wish I could be there to attend…
We had such a wonderful time! Who knew Justin had such mad dumpling making skills? Your Saturday session on lighting was so very helpful as indoor lighting is something I struggle with. Thank you for a fun filled event full of smiles! You both Rock!!
My husband and I had such a wonderful time! The cooking demos on Friday were great. Who knew Justin had mad dumpling skills? The sessions you presented on Saturday were so very helpful as indoor lighting is something I struggle with. You are an inspiration! Thanks for a fun filled weekend full of smiles. You both Rock!
Thanks Diane and Todd for another amazing conference! The two photography sessions you did were fantastic — the slides, showing each different “version” of lighting or styling were great — thanks for being so generous with your time and knowledge.