A Cookie Giveaway and a Fancy Food Show 2012 Recap

I love trying new food items and want that to be my full time job. I thought I made that clear when I put out my call for work as a full-time food show attendee after attending last year's NASFT Fancy Food Show. Looks like the food show gods weren't listening. So until I get my full-time food show attendee job, I guess I will have to settle for going once a year and eating a year's worth of food in one day. As always, the show had a spectacular array of delicious and strange treats for the eating. Here is my list of stand-out treats (and you know they are awesome if I am writing about the five of them amongst the 1500 other things I ate).

Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie and a New Laptop

The same week that the hooptie died, so did my laptop. One second, I was reading about the latest poll on the Republican candidates (okay, I was reading about Kim Kardashian's divorce) and the next second, I was staring at blank screen. The machine I'd relied on to keep me up to date with the latest in celebrity drama, the one with the glued on J key and the cookie crumbs in the keyboard, had left the building.

This caused the techie hubster great joy. My dinosaur of a laptop had been a constant source of embarrassment for him and he could barely wait to start researching replacements. So, I spent the next few weeks hearing all about RAM, and WLED, and SSD, and HDMI, and I zoned out each and every time. All I asked was that the new machine be ready to use soon and have a decent screen so I could watch the latest Republican debate online (okay, I wanted to watch Desperate Housewives).

A Tribute to Hooptie with Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies

Remember our hooptie? It was a bit of an (okay, a huge) eyesore but it did what we needed it to do.  That is, get us from point A to point B.  Albeit slowly.  And while making strange noises along the way.  Oh, and winning us strange looks from onlookers.  But bottom line, the hooptie served its purpose.

We deluded ourselves into thinking this would always be the case. And of course, we were wrong. The hooptie flipped us the bird at the most inopportune time possible.  But then again, that's almost poetic given the hooptie's history.