April 2011
7 posts
Austin Food & Wine Event Spotlight: Somms Under... →
What’s better than wine and food professionals putting their expertise to work? Why putting it to work under pressure of course!
In the tradition of Iron Chef and Chopped, the Keeper…
Austin Food & Wine Event Spotlight: Grand Wine and... →
Food and wine in Austin are heating up in a big way! This year’s Hill Country Wine and Food Festival was one of the best in years, the new Austin Food Blogger Alliance just kicked off our …
Menu Plan Monday ~ Week of April 18, 2011 →
Last week’s return to steady menu planning and the associated actual cooking of said menu plan went really well. We had a night early in the week where exhaustion from my first day back at…
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Curation Nation: How to turn information overload... →
I’ve posited previously that brands have a real opportunity to act as curators of expertise, bringing their domain knowledge to bear as they help customers and potential customers navigate the torrent of information we face in today’s fast-paced content-filled world. This article provides a nice overview of a new book called Curation Nation that addresses in detail the idea of brands...
Menu Plan Monday ~ Week of April 11, 2011 →
Menu planning is a really great tool when you’re on a mostly, kind-of, sort-of predictable schedule. Variances for the occasional food blogger event and school activity are easy to manage…
Warm Weather Parties Made Easy with Lamb Bulgogi... →
[Jump right to the Recipe: Lamb Bulgogi Kebabs]
It’s Spring which means it’s lamb season here on the blog. Okay, I suppose if I’m being honest any season is lamb season here at…
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E-mail addiction or an addication to being "in the... →
It’s interesting to me that the more I participate in online social activities, the more e-mail I seem to get. Press releases, messages about from Google groups about our new non-profit, Facebook notifications, blog comment notifications, and more. And because social is so immediate I hypothesize that I feel more compelled to respond to e-mail immediately which is absolutely unnecessary and...
