David Dadekian gives the assembled bloggers a tutorial in the fine art of food photography. (Photo by Penny Cherubino)

Thursday last, 40-plus of you invaded the station for the second local food blogger meet-up hosted by 90.9. (click here to read about our fist event) For a couple of hours that evening, local food bloggers outnumbered radio personnel. Had a coup been successfully staged, you’d now be tuning to “Boston’s NPR Food Station.” (Heck, we’ve already had JJ Gonson on the air. I say its only fair that we give others a crack at the mic).

Those that attended know we structured things differently this time around. First, we had four facilitated “break-out” sessions covering a range of food blogging related topics (Please see David Karp’s summary of the session he attended). That was followed by time for networking and then a discussion about what 90.9 is trying to accomplish in this space. (So engrossed in conversation we were, that we sadly forgot to snap photographs of the event. If you did, I would be grateful if you added to the PRK group).

90.9 is hugely indebted to Linsey Herman, the organizational genius behind this event. It was she who came up with the itinerary, including the breakout sessions, and recruited the facilitators for each of the latter. And thanks as well go out to the facilitators as well as those who attended with gifts of food.

A final note of thanks to Lexy Winter, whose participation marked her final internship duties with 90.9. Lexy, having finished her studies at Boston University as well as having to far too long endured my poor spelling and creative whims, is off to made what an indisputably big mark on the world. She certainly has in here, having left the Public Radio Kitchen in much better shape then it was when she came to WBUR earlier this year. Thank you Lexy!

I’ve endeavored to list all the participants, but as I am Lexy-less, I may have missed a few of your names, or conversely listed folks who were not in attendance. Please let me know if your name is among them.

Thank you for participating. Your feedback is always welcome!

Chief Organizer:

• Linsey Herman, Cake and Commerce
  

Facilitators:

• Pam Aghababian, Cave Cibum
  
• Mary Reilly, Cooking 4 The Week
  
• Dave Dadekian, Dave Dadekian Photography
  
• Linsey Herman, Cake and Commerce
  

Participants:

Gayle Squires, Kosher Camembert
Jessica Maillet, A Fete for Food
Justin Parmelee, Eating Habitually
Lexy Winter, twitter.com/lexwinter
Julia Rappaport, edible VINEYARD
David Karp, LimeDuck
Jessica Fechtor, Sweet Amandine
Emelie Hardman, The Conscious Kitchen
Kristen Nyberg, North Shore Dish
Jill Rose, North Shore Dish
Kerry Sainato, Cook with Kerry
Mia, Red Ramekin
Janet Ovrut , Dine Dish Delish
Richard Auffrey, The Passionate Foodie
Penny Cherubino, BostonZest
Michele Karol, FoodieMommy
Lilly Jan, consuming lilly
Jen Adams, Palate-to-Pen
Sydney Oland, Eating Nose to Tail
Jessica Haider, Mango Missives
Megan Secatore, twitter.com/rozzifarmmrkt
Tina Haupert, Carrots ‘n’ Cake
Sues Anderson, We are not Martha
Chels Adams, We are not Martha
Owen Mack, KitchenArts
Bruce Tretter, Gotta Eat, Can’t Cook
Erwin Chuk, twitter.com/yehwan

Value the Meal

Ken George
prk@wbur.org
Twitter: @pubradiokitchen