The News You've All Been Waiting for! - Earth To Table edition

Hi Peeps!

I almost couldn't sleep last night because I really wanted to type all about my AWESOME day yesterday! :)

If you haven't been keeping up, I went to the Concious Food Festival in Toronto yesterday with my good friends -one old and one new!!! (Hi Jenn! Hi Holly!) and we had a BLAST tasting all the concious food (and wine and beer) available in Toronto. My best pick? THE ICE CREAM! But we'll get to the full review of the Festival in my next post.

This post is about the specific HIGHLIGHT of my day (and most definitely in my entire short career as a blogger)! One of the tents was the "Earth to Table Bread Bar". Now you may have heard me talk about the book "Earth to Table" once or twice in this very blog, and if we actively chat about food, then I have talked about this book as the be all and end all of whole foods cooking! In fact, my posts about breadmaking (see in the first pic, there's the open book at page 281 for the Oatmeal and Molasses Bread!) and mayonnaise were thanks to this book because that's not only where I got the recipes from, BUT, they made it seem that IT WAS EASY TO MAKE BREAD (and mayonnaise, and well, EVERYTHING ELSE!) - and I totally believed them! And yay for me because bread is my FAVORITE thing to make - and I feel the most happy when I make it!


Beautiful Book!

So, onto the exciting part! I saw the book sitting on the table and I told my friends that they HAD TO get that book because it was THE MOST AWESOME BOOK EVER! It teaches you all about responsible, seasonal, local eating AND it has easy to accomplish recipes! And, as my friends and I were eyeying up all the gorgeous treats in this tent, I recognized one of the authors, Jeff Crump behind the table!!! I got so excited! At first, I wasn't sure if that was him or not, but I pointed him out to my friends...they encouraged me to go and talk to him, but (and if you know me, you'll wonder what was wrong with me) I got SHY! Yes, people, I got SHY! I couldn't think of one intelligent thing to say - all I could come up with in my head was "Me like book. Me make bread" And I didn't want to go up and make an ass of myself...so my darling friends did it for me! AND I AM SO GLAD THE DID! While I was in line waiting (and waiting and waiting and waiting) for some "Concious Poutine" (I'm Quebecois, so, if there is poutine within a 50 mile radius, I MUST HAVE IT. It's not my fault, it's in my blood!) my friends were over chatting it up with Mr. Jeff Crump. As I still couldn't think of anything even remotely funny/intelligent to say to him, I just stayed in line because, again, we had to sort our priorities here people - look like an ASS in front of someone I admire, or get poutine - so the Quebecois in me made me stay in line...and as I was gazing longingly over, I saw that my friends were getting books signed :'( My heart got a little sad because *I* would've liked MY copy signed!!! Ah well...at that point I was glad that my friends got a copy of the book in any case!

I'm going to fast forward a little bit from the "I finally got my poutine" to the "I GOT TO MEET JEFF CRUMP" part!



How FANTASTIC is that????!!!! My awesome friends told him about my blog, and for all you guys know, he could be reading it RIGHT NOW! (Hi Jeff!)

He was SO NICE! And, I completely did not know what the heck to say to him! I was completely 100% tongue tied! BUT, he offered to do an INTERVIEW for the BLOG!!!! AND...my heart got very happy because he gave me A SIGNED COPY OF HIS BOOK:


<3 =:D


And, now onto the part that YOU might care more about:



Why are there TWO copies of the fabulous Earth to Table book in this pic you may ask...well because Mr. Jeff Crump GAVE US A COPY OF HIS BOOK TO GIVE AWAY ON MY BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!

So, we are going to have a contest! ON MY BIRTHDAY! Yipppeeeee!!!!!
I have to figure out the logistics and if there are any legalities etc. and I will announce the details on this blog within 1 week (I will also post a note on the Facebook Group when the details come out!)

YAY AND YIPPPPEEEEEEE!!!!! On August 31st, one of you lucky readers can have your very own copy of Earth to Table by Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann!!!!! Then maybe YOU can make bread, or pizza, or forage, or make your own mayonnaise, or learn about sustainable farming and CSA's (this book is where I first learned about them!)!