(mailing, James Berry)
[[invoke. page:newsletter1 # These are some of the fields that may be used # ============================= # leadimageid: # leadtext: # story1id: # story1text: # story2id: # story2text: # recipe1id: # recipe1text: # recipe2id: # recipe2text: # vad: (html for vertical ad) # hitBucket: (name used to track delivery) # ============================= leadimageid: 236480 leadtext: !fmt/block | h1. Dear readers, Last week, like a thousand other people, I attended the IACP — International Association of Culinary Professionals — confab in Portland. What a great gathering of impassioned, hungry, and fun-loving people! There were sessions on charcuterie, farming, seafood, and social media. There was a James Beard walk, a James Beard talk, and a James Beard cocktail party. There were dinners and parties and food carts and coffee klatches — Portland-style (often involving Spella or VooDoo). There were food celebrities including Madhur Jaffrey, Thomas Keller, and Ruth Reichl. My only disappointment was that I couldn't be everywhere at once. If you'd like to learn more about the event, check out these posts by attendees and folks behind the scenes: Sarah Henry, Michael Ruhlman, Michelle Stern, Sarah DiGregorio, and Louisa Neumann. Finally, there's the official IACP flickr photostream, and the #IACP hashtag on Twitter. But even if a rehashing isn't your thing, take heart in knowing that for several days straight, hundreds of people who write about food, promote it for a living, and passionately cook for others, were all in one place, helping one another to grasp the challenges we face in feeding ourselves — and how much we have to celebrate. Kim Carlson Editorial Director # The lead text story1id: 276753 story1text: "Matthew Amster-Burton explores one of the big cooking questions of the early 21st century: Gas or electric?" story2id: 264885 story2text: "Meg DesCamp's mother cooked for a family of 10. How? Coffee and mystery novels. Meg has it much more difficult." recipe1id: 277082 recipe1text: "This fresh-tasting pasta comes together in minutes." recipe2id: 277617 recipe2text: "A taste of David Lebovitz's new book, 'Ready for Dessert.'" # The ad vad: | <a target='_blank' href="http://howtocookapp.com/"> <img src="http://ads.culinate.com/htce/htce-skyscraper.png" " width="120" height="600" alt="" border="0"/></a> ]]