i thought this was going to be just a talk. no.
of course like a goof i ate before we got there.
it was chicken. anyways, so didn't matter.
it was at the ritz carlton.
a ton of tables, in the room, super pretty flower arrangements.
and a book for each person on the chairs.
we ate lunch,
and then the "panel" came out.
jamie, rachel, alice, the writer for the south beach diet, and some government fda head.
and so the "talk" began.
through the years i have read a lot about what they were talking about.
food, organic, local, fatness in kids, fast food, etc.
alice: i saw her on the martha show, i could not stand her then, this lady everyone hypes as the frontier person for seasonal cooking, organic growing, she runs a very famous restaurent in CA, and teaches school kids how to "get back to nature", such as growing the food and learning to cook it. yeah well, i'm sorry she is so out of touch with reality in america.
example: they had a q and a at the end, and some perosn asks her about how to learn to cook with food, and everyone in her family thinking vegtables come from a can, etc etc....
alice: in her snobby voice, oh you know...... go to the farmers market, walk around, be a family, learn about the produce, meet the farmers, grow a organic garden.
dave hated her too.
she was so annoying. yeah, all the usa problems will end if we all grow a fucking organic garden. (mind you, i have plants and gardens, so i know how much work it takes to do, and if people are to busy to "cook" in the first place, dear lord, there not going to grow a garden).
rachel: she was ok, she's a hype, she is doing some good in this industry with her program yum-o.
jamie: he knows his material, he has made change in the UK, he's one of those good looking young guys who are so super cocky. he is cute, that is why people like him
only in the US would a bunch of girls giggle, when a brit over the mike, refers to them as "girls", oh "lovey girls". you know in the accent....
it just went on and on. and the questions were getting pointless.
these topics are so political, and money, that is all what it comes down to.
after:
this is the funny part.
so first i end up holding the door for jamie as he leaves, he never even says thanks, and then we and dave head to the side bathroom in the main lobby, there is a door that closes it off, but before the lunch i found this bathroom which is kind of hidden.
so i go back to it.
there is this security guy standing there, blocking the door, so i say. "what the heck are montiering the bathroom or somthing?"
the guys says actually yes.
i'm like huh????
so i have all these cookbooks in my hands, with some flowers on top of that, and basically waiting for dave to go to the bathroom, so then he can hold the books when i go, and then i hear that voice, it is rachel, standing next to me. talking away.
with her "people". with the security guard.
i was giggling to myself because it was so random, and a great start to the festival.
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