Sunday, Cupcakes Take The Cake had a bake sale at the Brooklyn Flea and raise $700 for Cupcakes For A Cause. If you want to contribute, go buy a cupcake today at either Baked, Crumbs, or one of the many bakeries across the country.
Tuesday I ate well thanks to Foodbuzz, learned how to make risotto thanks to Chef Brad Steelman from River Cafe and learned about induction cooking thanks to Electrolux.
Wednesday, I drank champagne, got some free Jo Malone performe samples and listened to jazz musician Marcus Goldhaber.
Earlier this week, I was asked “What are the ten most important thing women, 18 to 34, need to know about to remain culturally relevant.” I thought about it and here is my list in no particular order. Add your ideas in the comments.
Economic Independence: Know that they can pursue their dreams and not starve.
Reproductive Rights: Be aware of how that the President appoints judges to the Supreme Court and that reproductive laws can vary from state to state.
Being comfortable with your sexuality: whether you are a serial dater, married, single, lesbian, bisexual. Practicing abstinence counts, too.
Communicate effectively with grace and like a grown-up. Showing humility with others and stop the baby talk.
Read about the world both locally and globally: read books, newspapers, magazines and online media. Know what is going on in the world around you.
Green your life: Be aware of you can be green. More than recycling. It is about using less.
Being fit: Start now with healthy habits. Walking, running, yoga, going to the gym.
Enjoy food: Grown your own. Cook your own meals.
Accept yourself: Be confident about your mind and body. Appreciate your mental quirks and physical being.
Develop your own personal style: Know what colors and clothes fits your personality and body.
The things that make a great conference is learning new things, meeting cool people and not feeling overwhelmed with both. Today I went to All Day Buffet’s The Feast at The Scandinavian House.
Making Garbage a positive commodity by Terracycle’s Tom Szaky
World traveler and organic soap maker Josh Onysko, founder of Pangea Organics.
New Orleans as a Social Innovation Laboratory by Robbie Vitrano of Trumpet. In his presentation, he had one of the best Don Draper references, “Everyday I do God’s work, which is advertising”.
Social Design and Social Impact with Elizabeth Johansen from Ideo.
I miss Play Pumps but they bring water pumps to Africa
Piers from PSFK talked about creators, communities and companies.
If We Ran It by Michael Romanowicz and Marissa Shrum. Daylighting. Slashers. It’s a look at how young people have an interdisciplinary approach toward career and work.
Fame Theory by Jose Serrano-Reyes and Seth Aylmer. Using data to steer social capital.
Chad Rea of EcoPop who challenged everyone to do the opposite of what they are currently doing.
This book is really interesting with a mix of anecdotes, biology, statistics, and recent pop culture references. It is a critical of men in America today. I hope the Y-chromosome survives. Even though, I sometimes suffer from manesia, I think men are kinda super.
Tonight, I went to the book party for Baked at PowerHouse Arena in DUMBO. Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, the owners of Baked in Red Hook, have written their first cookbook, Baked: New Frontiers in Baking, which is full of delicious recipes for cakes, brownies, whoopie pies and cupcakes. The Chocolate Malted cupcakes pictured above are so yummy!
Before going to the Baked event, I stopped by the FreshDirect event at Union Square Wine and Spirits. The event was to promote the FreshDirect’s new online wine store partnership With USQ Wine Store. There was cheese and wine pairings, sake with edamame, a few Spanish wines and a really spicy ginger cocktail made with Canton. I especially liked the Llopart Rose Brut Cava so I may get some for the holidays since they will be here soon. At the event, I met a couple of writers from Crain’s, a very cool former model who is a foodie, and actress Robin Mattson who played Heather on General Hospital back in the day. Plus, I talked to fellow foodbuzz blogger Miss Ginsu and the very nice publicists at MWW.
“We’re taking the “W” back this year” said Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. Despite the fact it was a rainy Sunday, I went to Sun Microsystems office’s near Grand Central to attend Word Camp New York. The room where Word Camp was held packed with people who crossed the wide spectrum of blogging. Some were old skool and there were a few who just started out. There were tech bloggers, non-profit bloggers, corporate bloggers and personal bloggers.
There was a lot of information given out today, so I just note the highlights.
The next version of WordPress (2.7) will be released in November 2008.
2009 will be the Year of Themes
Buddy Press, social networking plug-in for WordPress blog is coming.
A couple of weeks, the three of us went over to Brooklyn Hilary for a photo shoot. We didn’t have press photos, so I thought it would be a good idea. It was so much fun. We took a lot photos!
Quirky Circus: Expect weirdness on Tuesday night at the Gershwin Hotel. Armitage Shanks, Zero Boy, Lady Rizo and Coney Island Sideshow folks. $10, 8PM
The Alcoholic: Jonathan Ames animated may seem redundant or ironic depending on when you catch him, but he’s doing a reading of new graphic novel this Wednesday at Book Court in Brooklyn at 7PM.
Cause For Drinks: Also on Wednesday, you can drink and give to a good cause at All Day Buffet’s happy hour at Gallery Bar. BTW, are you going to The Feast Conference on October 16? I am.
