Wesleyan University in Connecticut recently held Foodstock, a food conference dedicated to cooks and books. The all-day extravaganza featured some of the food world's best and brightest writers (including SE contributors!) as well as local food bloggers, cookbook authors, and chefs. Of the many speakers, some highlights included Ruth Reichl, Eric Asimov, Dorie Greenspan, Molly O'Neill, and Jane Stern. Check out some snapshots from Foodstock! More

We spent the weekend eating biscuits, drinking bourbon, and having a grand time at the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival. In its second year, the four-day event celebrates the rich food and drink traditions of the south, bringing together talented chefs hailing from 13 states and D.C. The group of expert chicken fryers, bourbon distillers, biscuit bakers and other Southern food and drink authorities rolled up their sleeves to teach us at seminars and feed us inside the tasting tents. Check out the snapshots of our favorite bites! More

In other industries, you might spend the night before the biggest event of the year—in the food world, that's tonight's James Beard Foundation Chef awards—I don't know, resting, or watching Mad Men, or eating a sensible meal and going to bed early. But that's not what chefs do. Instead, they turned out in full force to Chef's Night Out at Chelsea Market, for a Negroni or six and good eats from the Chelsea Market crew. Take a look! More

We had a blast over the weekend feeding muffulettas to a bunch of happy people at the Sweetlife Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. We drove down in the Salumeria Biellese truck with all of our muffuletta supplies: sopressata, capicola, mortadella, provolone, olive salad (eight gallons of it!) and 250 round loaves of bread from Parisi Bakery, fresh-baked just before our 4 a.m. departure Saturday morning (that fresh). Here are some snapshots from the festival, including close-ups of the mighty muffuletta. More

Like food as much as you like music? Then keep reading. We're very excited to share with you that we've teamed up with the Sweetlife Food and Music Festival happening on Saturday, April 28, at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, to bring you some of the best eats you'll find at a music festival. The Sweetlife folks had already done some of the spade work, but we managed to fill out the dance card with some of our favorite purveyors. More

Last Last Sunday, on the lawn of Culver Studios, the chef-tacular second annual L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade benefit was held for pediatric cancer research. Deeply moved by Alex's story, Los Angeles chefs Suzanne Goin(AOC, Lucques, Tavern) and husband David Lentz (The Hungry Cat), plus Goin's business partner Caroline Styne, have collected an astonishing group of chefs, mixologists and vintners. Everyone came out to lend a hand, a grill and a copious amount of wine and whisky to support the cause. More

For its second year, Sunset's Savor the Central Coast set up on the historic 14,000-acre Santa Margarita ranch near San Luis Obispo. Winemakers, chefs, brewers, farmers, and artisan food makers from all over California's oft undercelebrated middle region between San Francisco and Los Angeles, were plating and pouring samples all weekend. Among the favorite bites were some beautiful grilled Morro Bay oysters, lamb tagine, a goat cheese souffle, boar cavatelli, and more More

Thousands turned out for the second annual World Cheese Dip Championship after last year's super successful showing. This year the venue was moved to the much larger War Memorial Stadium to accommodate the bigger turnout. Competitors were asked to come with ten gallons each of cheese dip. Arkansawyers sure love their cheese dip! More

Off the Grid, San Francisco's mobile food truck market, has expanded in its second year to ten weekly events in nine locations (including San Mateo and Berkeley), six days a week. Check out photos of all 23 foods we tried from the market. And if you find yourself in the Bay Area September 10th or 17th, you can catch the final two weeks of Off the Grid's extra-special event at Golden Gate Fields for the largest gathering of mobile food trucks in Northern California. More

Octopus was the popular protein of choice at Taste of the Nation on Sunday in Los Angeles, while creamy custards dominated desserts, and cocktails tended toward gin and mint combos and beer floats. Check out everything we tried! All 33 bites and sips. More