Clever Thoughts

Foodies Unite

// February 28th, 2009 // Uncategorized

I went to an interesting event the other night at WBUR. It was an Eat-up Tweet-up.

Imagine, if you will, a room full of people who like to talk and blog about food. It was awesome and delicious. There was an interesting exchange of ideas and thoughts about the local food scene and how it’s being covered. There was food brought by many. There was wine. There was a lot of people trying to figure out how they fit into the group.

I was also trying to figure out how I fit into the group. I realized recently that this is a group that I should participate in because I have a great passion for food. I don’t think I want to start a food blog, but I do think I want to participate in the food websites like chow and yelp, reviewing the places that I like to eat. I am not an expert persey, but I know what I like and want to share that with others.

So, here are some of the interesting people I got to hang out with at the #eattweet:

• Lauren Goldberg – Lauren is working her way into the blogging world trying to figure out if there is a niche she can fill. I understand her concern about not wanting to add more of the same content… but I feel that blogs are about points of views and every person brings their own view/style and that is what separates the content… so Just Do It I say
• Owen Mack – Owen is the charismatic owner of Kitchen Arts on Newbury Street. He currently has a very interesting website that has some fun video demos of cooking tools and toys in his shop. I am looking forward to visiting his store in the near future to play. (don’t tell my wife)
• Mary Reilly – Mary is a personal chef with a yummy blog. She brought some wonderful healthy vegetarian fare to the event which included beets with cauliflower and lentils with feta cheese. I think I may ask her if she would be willing to teach a class for me about weekly cooking.
• Lynne Viera – Lynne has sexy video blog that highlights cooks and foodies in the Boston area. She brought some delicious cupcakes that were filled with a rasberry mouse. You can find the info on the cupcakes here.

So, I have an alterior motive for attending this event. I want to go to a CupCakeCamp in Boston, but I have to many projects already on my plate(giggle). So I have been aproaching everyone I can to get this dream of mine off the ground. I am happy to help connect people and be a cheerleader, but I canot organize this event right now…

Thanks again to Ken and his staff for organizing this delectable delight. I hope that this post and my future posting about the food world in Boston is worthy of the #eattweet group. :)

photo by jbcurio