Eat Drink Blog 2011: Post Conference Wrap and Media Kit Resources

A massive thank you to all those who attended Saturday’s Eat Drink Blog 2011 Conference in Sydney – a full day that ran from registration at 9am to the official close of dinner at 10:30pm – with every spare minute crammed with content. We were most impressed with the fantastic turnout of foodbloggers as we’d initially aimed for 80 attendees but on the day we had a total of 87 confirmed conference registrants. Amazingly, with the exception of the Northern Territory, we had representation from every other state and territory around Australia – a truly national conference! And we couldn’t have asked for a nicer bunch of bloggers to attend the conference either! Despite many having met for the first time, we noted smiles and enthusiasm aplenty and by the end of the conference day, many of you were getting on like old friends. You guys are awesome!

We’d encouraged tweeting during the day, and boy did you oblige. The day’s proceedings were so well tweeted and so many #eatdrinkblog2011 tweets flooded the Twittersphere that for a while, #eatdrinkblog2011 was even a trending topic!

Many thanks to the many guest presenters and panelists who gave up their time and in many cases, forked out significant amounts to travel interstate and present at this conference. We are so grateful for your contribution to the day!

Thank you also to the sponsors who gave very generously to the day – without their generosity, this day could not have been as well equipped and catered as it was and importantly, we couldn’t have made it free to all the conference attendees.

And lastly on behalf of the other organisers – a very big thank you to the staff that chipped in on the day – Tammi our MC; Christina and Peggy our photographers; Vicki our videographer; Thang our social media manager; and Anna our interviewer.

Below we have provided some links to information about the some of the conference sessions including presentations (where available), presenter profiles, menus, recipes and attendees featured during the day.

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Food, recipes links and more:

Conference venue provided by Electrolux

Name tags and lanyards provided by bookarestaurant

Breakfast, morning tea and afternoon tea pastries provided by Brasserie Bread

Breakfast menu

Morning tea

Afternoon tea

Fruit platters provided by IMPACT Communications Australia

Coffee on the day provided by Toby’s Estate

Juice Bar provided by Breville

Juice bar recipes

Delice macaron tower and Lindor chocolate balls provided by Lindt

Drinks provided by Daylesford and Hepburn Mineral Springs

Lunch and lamb masterclass provided by MLA, prepared by Nonie Dwyer

Nonie Dwyer Chef profile (below) and photo

Nonie Dwyer is a chef whose passion for seasonal, local and ethical food has been honed by years working in the UK. From a multi award-winning restaurant in Scotland, to Michelin-starred restaurants in England, to three years as sous-chef and acting head chef at the famous River Cottage Headquarters working for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. This role was as diverse as it was enjoyable, including cheffing, teaching, recipe development, food styling and TV production work. The role allowed Nonie to develop her love of butchery and make delicious use of every part of an animal. One of Nonie’s first butchery lessons was teaching one of Gordon Ramsey’s head chefs. Everything has seemed easier since.

Lunch recipe: slow cooked shoulder of spiced lamb

Beef and lamb cuts chart (although I note there is no lamb bacon cut)

Crab workshop by Kingsleys

Singapore chilli crab recipe

Conference dinner provided by Kingsleys Steak and Crabhouse

Conference dinner menu

Chargrilled flat iron steak with chimichurri slow roasted beef tenderloin recipe

Information on kiss chillis (the pickled chillis used in the conference dinner entree)

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Presentation links:
Note: no presentation slides were used for the Food photography workshop; Food Styling workshop; Crab masterclass; Bread masterclass; Monetising and professional blogging; Food Culture and Ethics.

Legal panel

Presentation on copyright regarding use of pictures and recipes, courtesy of Dominic Villa

Presentation on defamation, courtesy of Stephen Estcourt, QC

SEO session

Presentation on SEO for blogs, courtesy of Michael Gall

Writing seminar

Presentation on how to make your writing shine, courtesy of Valerie Khoo

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Confirmed attendees present at Eat Drink Blog 2011:

For those interested, we have listed below all the bloggers that attended Eat Drink Blog 2011 (in alphabetical order):

• 84th and 3rd
• adobo down under
• amystown
• Capital Gourmand
• Cats – Love – Cooking
• Citrus and Candy
• Cook Republic
• Cooking from the heart
• Corridor Kitchen
• crunchytiger
• cupcakiedolly
• Dining with a Stud
• Dinner in Ten Minutes
• Eat, drink + be Kerry
• eat, drink, stagger
• Epicureans Answer
• Everybody Loves Ramen
• Fine Diner
• Food Endeavours of the Blue Apocalypse
• Food, booze and shoes
• Gastromony
• Gastronomy Gal
• Gosstronomy
• Green Cilantro
• I dream in Chocolate
• I’m so Hungree
• J’s Kitchen
• Jenius
• Lambs’ Ears and Honey
• Law Geek Down Under
• M(i)sCh(i)ef
• Miss Lolly Loves Food
• Miss Morag’s Morsels
• Morsels & Musings
• My Aching Head
• My Delicious Blog
• Nic Cooks
• Noodlies
• Paddington Pantry
• Passionatemae
• Phuoc’n Delicious
• Progressive Dinner Party
• Reminiscence of a food tragic
• Richard Elliot’s Blog
• Sefie Eats
• Souvlaki For The Soul
• Starloz
• Stone Soup
• Sugar’s Sweet Blog
• Sugarlace
• Tammi Tasting Terroir
• Tea For Six
• The $120 Food Challenge
• The Adventures of Miss Piggy
• The Capers of the Kitchen Crusader
• The Cook’s Notebook
• The Empty Fridge
• The Food Mentalist
• The French Wench
• The Gourmet Forager
• the heart of food
• The Hungry Australian
• the hungry duck
• The Last Appetite
• the little lioness
• The Spotted Pufferfish
• the way it crumbles
• When the world stops spinning
• winos and foodies

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Conference day prize winners:

Our sponsors generously provided conference day prizes with total prize pool worth $950!

• Toby’s Estate hamper worth $120 won by crunchytiger
• Brasserie Bread voucher worth $150 won by adobo down under
• 3x Lindt prize hampers worth $150 each won by amystown, I’m so Hungree, and Sugar’s Sweet Blog
• Breville Juicer worth $230 won by Dinner in ten minutes

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And as you would have noticed with all the cameras and AV gear around on the day, plenty of photos were taken throughout the day as well as interviews with all the presenters. All of these will be available within the next week in the Eat Drink Blog media hub. But for now, here’s a small sneak peek from the day…

Breakfast pastries courtesy of Brasserie Bread

Fruit platters courtesy of IMPACT Communications Australia

Delice Macaron Tower and Lindor balls courtesy of Lindt

Tammi Jonas (@tammois) the MC for Eat Drink Blog 2011

Dominic Villa (@under_exposed) presenting at the legal panel

Stephen Estcourt (@stephenestcourt) presenting at the legal panel with Tammi as MC

Michael Gall (@MyAchingHead) presenting at the SEO seminar

Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo) presenting at Writing Seminar

Lunch prep underway

Nonie Dwyer presenting the lamb masterclass

Chef Lars Svensson of the Kingsleys Restaurant Group presenting the Crab Workshop

Matt Brock of Brasserie Bread presenting the Bread Masterclass

Quentin Jones presenting at the Food Photography Workshop

Peter Georgakopoulos' (@souvlakiman) Food Styling Workshop in full swing

One of the creations in the Food Styling Workshop

The entree from the EDB2011 conference dinner at Kingsleys - featured is the smoked yellowfin tuna carpaccio with pickled chilli and pistachio

For those that have a post on the conference day – if you haven’t already then please email the link to us and we’ll add you to the growing list of blog posts already featured here.

And don’t forget – we still have the Eat Drink Blog 2011 Photography Competition – entries close this Friday with some excellent prizes on offer, and remember you have to be in it to win it!

Many thanks again for all that attended and made the 5th November Eat Drink Blog day possible!

Simon, Jen, Reem and Trina

Eat Drink Blog 2011 conference organisers