The Diva That Ate New York // Food Community Events

Divas and Dragons and Dishes: Chinese New Year Recap 2012

I’m definitely still full from our “Year Of The Dragon” Chinese New Year Potluck event. Two weeks later?! How much food did I eat?

While the food was PLENTIFUL and STUPENDOUS and while I definitely had my fill, I’m brimming from our friends who bring their enthusiasm and their best to every event that Ken and I host.

I love the lead up to this event: The #TigerCNYPL twitter feed lights up with questions like “What should I make?”; “What are you making?”; “Please make… !” speculating and scheming. I love being the keeper of the menu. It’s both sweet torture and a thrill each time I ring the virtual gong, adding each dish to the feast and announcing it on the feed. 

As the menu grows bigger and the day of the event grows nearer, the anticipatory tweets get more frenzied. Everyone is excited about tasting each others food and getting to spend time with one another. A fun-filled feast and love fest—what more could you want?

Well, there is one moment, as the host, I could live without…

The Diva That Co-Hosted NYC Cookie Swap 2011

Have you stood face-to-face with over a thousand cookies that you could eat and take home to feast on? If you haven’t, you totally should!

I had the absolute DELIGHT! of hosting NYC COOKIE Swap yesterday with Maggy Keets, Gail Dosik and Ken Leung. What a fun event! The local and not so local food community came out in droves with their A-GAME cookies and it was STUPENDOUS!

I made: Cranberry Pepita Rugelach with Apple Honey Jelly | Stained Glass Ginger Cookies | Peppermint Chocolate Bark Stars

Let my video tell the tale of tasty treats…

IACP NYC Culinary Trust Raffle at Smorgasburg

The IACP conference is coming to town in 2012. Come down this Saturday (11/19) to Smorgasburg to Win-Win-Win! Eat fantastic artisan made foods, sample delicious soup from Jimmy’s No. 43 at our booth, enjoy a beautiful fall day on the Williamsburg, Brooklyn waterfront and support an dynamic food charity by purchasing chances to win holiday gifts for you and/or your loved ones! AND find out about International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), one the best culinary conferences on the planet, that’s coming to NYC for the first time ever, in March 2012.

The Diva That Hosted Pie Party Potluck LIVE!

Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! The spread of over 70 pies at Pie Party Potluck LIVE! was breathtaking, jaw dropping and mouth watering. I’d never seen anything like it. Well maybe in a bakery, but even they lacked the variety and the made with loved-ness of the Pie Party Potluck pies…

When Ken and I decided to host Pie Party Potluck LIVE!! I kept imagining what it would be like? How many people/pies would actually show up? How many people can we fit at Rodeo Bar? Have we invited too many people? Too few? Can we fit more? Weeks and weeks of questions that would only be answered when the day actually came.

Pie Party Potluck LIVE! 10/15 12-3

Lemon meringue pie was the first pie I ever made. Edie, my mom’s best friend, taught me how to bake during the summers we spent with her in Copake Lake. She gave me my first cookbook, The Joy Of Cooking. I was so lucky to have her in my life, I loved her. She contracted Alzheimer’s disease when she was in her late 40’s and passed away after a very long time being battled by it.

I’ve made what seems like a zillions of pies since then, but the first one was the catalyst. Wherever Edie is, I know she’s thrilled to bits that those first lessons have led to Pie Party Potluck LIVE!

Join food bloggers, food writers, food entrepreneurs, chefs, bakers, restaurateurs, other food biz peeps and pie enthusiasts on October 15th at the Rodeo Bar eating pie!!!

Ken and I are so excited to get to hang out with old friends (and eat pie!) and to meet a whole bunch of friends from Twitter in real life (and eat pie) and to meet a bunch of new people (and eat pie!). Come share the PIE LOVE!

The Diva That Big Summer Potluck’d!

A wise man I know says, “Everything that matters happens between people.” I fell in love with Twitter—yes love—because it gives me access to people—awesome, warm, passionate, food-loving people. I love living in New York City because it gives me the ability to meet up with many of the wonderful people I’ve met on Twitter in real life. It was only natural then for me to fall hard for Big Summer Potluck (BSP2) because it gave me more access to more great food-loving people!

More than sixty food bloggers and people who love them gathered in Pennsylvania to be together as a community. It was live. It was between people and it was exhilarating.

Jackie Gordon Singing Chef at Techmunch

I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at Techmunch NYC 2011 on the panel: How to Market your Blog and Turn it into a Brand/Business.

You can download a copy of the hand-out I created for the attendees and well as two other MUST HAVE pieces from other presenters.