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What I Learned at FoodBlogSouth

January 31, 2012
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Oh, how I love the South. The people and the stories that come with the food is what I am really in love with. Jennifer Cole, editor at Southern Living, said it best during her opening speech at FoodBlogSouth: “Southern food has a soul and a story.” FoodBlogSouth was my very first blogging conference when [...]

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Field of Greens | A Celebration of Local Food

October 3, 2011
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The Field of Greens Festival is one of my very favorite festivals in the Atlanta area. It is a festival that celebrates local food, and it takes place at Whippoorwill Hollow Farm out in Covington, Georgia. What better way to celebrate local food, than at a local, organic farm? Of course, you would find me [...]

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Last Leo Roar! A Cooperative Birthday Celebration with Great Friends

September 10, 2011
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I usually don’t get to celebrate my birthday… in the sense that in recent years my birthday has usually consisted of dinner out with the husband and his parents. When my dear friend, Patricia decided to put together a collaborative birthday shindig for all of her fellow Leo friends, I was ecstatic. Because Patricia knows [...]

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The Peachtree Road Race & Peach Blackberry Mini Pies

July 5, 2011
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I hope you all had a fantastic 4th of July! We spent the first part of the day running AJC’s Peachtree Road Race. Paul and I ran our first Peachtree Road Race in 2008 and it’s become sort of an annual tradition for us since. Yes, it is a “hot” race to run – both [...]

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FoodBlogSouth – a Southern food blogging conference

January 23, 2011
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Grits, pie and lots of incredible foodies: a few things that made up FoodBlogSouth – a Southern food blogging conference in Birmingham, Alabama. I made the decision not to head to Birmingham on Friday afternoon, mostly due to a busy day of work on Friday, procrastination and some laziness.  Which meant that I needed to [...]

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13.1 miles done!

November 27, 2010
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Finished my first half marathon: the Atlanta Half Marathon on Thanksgiving Morning. The fact that I actually accomplished this goal still hasn’t quite sunk in yet. The pain and soreness in my legs is finally starting to fade, and fleeting thoughts of when to go on my next training run are starting to re-enter my [...]

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Brook Run Dog Festival

October 9, 2010

We dropped by the Brook Run Dog Festival this afternoon to visit our dear friends, Yesenia and John, of Doggy Baby. My Aubie taking a water break at the Doggy Baby booth. Yesenia’s pup Snoopy! This was our first visit to the Brook Run Park in Dunwoody.  The dog park there is amazing… it’s a [...]

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Field of Greens Festival

October 3, 2010

Although we live 45 minutes outside the middle of Atlanta, it took us over an hour to drive out to Whippoorwill Hollow Farm for the Field of Greens festival.  It was a long drive, but it was well worth it. When I heard about this sustainable farming fair, I thought to myself: Organic farming, farm [...]

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Fifteen Asian Countries in One Day

July 31, 2010

The Asian Cultural Experience: a two day event when the Gwinnett Center (Duluth, GA) is home to 15 Asian countries: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.  The Asian Cultural Experience recently relocated to the Gwinnett Center after being held at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens [...]

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Red Wine, Food & Inappropriate Conversation

June 13, 2010

Plenty of wine, finger food and inappropriate conversation … just a few of the components of Hollis Gillespie’s The Shocking Real-Life Food Writing Workshop: Eat, Drink & Get Published workshop.  Yesterday was spent eating, drinking and learning all about becoming a food writer. Talk about amazing. Some delish pistachio chocolate chip cookies that fellow workshop [...]

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