Where am I?
More precisely, where have I been? In a previous post I hinted at a visit elsewhere and here's a bit more about it. On September 15, I attended the first LongHouse Food Writers' Revival:
Based on the 19th century American Chautauqua movement, LongHouse Food Writers Revivals are a series of annual gatherings of thought leaders across the United States. The Revivals are designed to stretch the boundaries of how food stories are told, raise the bar on the nation’s food news agenda and, most of all, foster the community between generations, regions, cultures and media platforms that support innovative work of the highest quality.
A report of the events of the day in the words of Molly O'Neill, the person behind the vision, is in this post (which also includes a slide show).
The photos in this post are from lunch time, when pizza was served to the Revival's participants. The beautiful pizza oven in the photo traveled on a trailer to reach LongHouse.
Update: A post related to the photos above was just published on the LongHouse blog. Here's a bit of the intro:
Albie Barden... hauled the magnificent copper-doomed wood-fired oven that he helped build from his home in Skowhegan, Maine, to LongHouse Food Writers Revival.
He intended to demonstrate the efficacy and efficiency of the oven... But the gathering also carried Mr. Barden back through his own path of making-a-living, while making-a-difference, while making-art.
In a letter to LongHouse he issues a battle cry: “Put your hand in the fire!”
Read the rest of Albie's beautiful letter.
In case you are wondering, we also had dinner at LongHouse, but that is a story for another post.
This is my contribution to edition #53 of Black and White Wednesday - A Culinary Photography Event created by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook and from this week onward organized by Cinzia of Cindystar, who is also hosting.
The two top photos were shot in color and then converted to black and white.
This post contains the gallery of images submitted to the event.
On this page, you can find out who is hosting the current and future editions of the event.
oh that pizza oven is beautiful!!! what i would do for one of those, haha!
Posted by: angela lemoine | October 04, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Quelle pizze sembrano davvero interessanti!!!
Posted by: Baol | October 04, 2012 at 11:54 PM
Ciao Simona hai blog bellissimo! Io vivo in Italia, a Roma ed ho realizzto anche io un blog sull'arte e la gastronomia italiane in inglese se ti va di vederlo http://artandfoodofitaly.blogspot.it
Posted by: Francesca | October 05, 2012 at 03:36 AM
Hi Angela. That oven certainly had a lot of people dreaming, myself included.
Ciao Baol. E sparivano velocemente.
Ciao Francesca e grazie della visita. Passero' a trovarti al piu' presto.
Posted by: Simona Carini | October 05, 2012 at 07:45 AM
What a wonderful event. Oh, I want one of those pizza ovens as well!!!
Posted by: Ivy | October 05, 2012 at 11:39 PM
What a lovely event you attended and the pizza oven looks amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Lynne | October 08, 2012 at 03:11 AM
Ci credo! :)
Posted by: Baol | October 08, 2012 at 03:21 AM
Ciao Ivy. Every time I look at these photos, a dreamy expression comes over my face.
Hi Lynne. It was a real treat.
Baol, vedrai le foto della cena ;)
Posted by: Simona Carini | October 08, 2012 at 05:08 PM
Proprio un bell'avvenimento e quel forno da pizza portatile è incredibile!!!
Grazie per le tue foto, la galleria è finalmente on-line:
http://cindystarblog.blogspot.it/2012/10/black-white-wednesday-week-53-gallery.html
Posted by: cinzia | October 10, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Grazie, Cinzia. Nei sogni, il signore che costruisce i forni ha ricevuto molti ordini.
Posted by: Simona Carini | October 11, 2012 at 10:56 PM
Simona, this retreat looks like it was a very special time for everyone.
Posted by: Molly Hashimoto | October 12, 2012 at 06:49 PM
It was, indeed, Molly. Both you and I had an inspiring experience last month.
Posted by: Simona Carini | October 18, 2012 at 12:38 PM