Will blog for bread

I’m not going to lie…I don’t know if it’s just because I’m a blogger who is patently unafraid to step out from behind my computer screen, but I have often discovered there are huge perks to being someone who writes inane garden and food posts while also showing up at social events.

It’s not logical, but it’s fun.

Thusly and therefore, I ended up invited to VDog’s Berkeley home last week, sitting just feet from Chris Mann, a genuinely nice and talented Sony Music artist who performed a house concert for a very select few of us. Oh, and for the Interwebs. But there were very few of us in the room.

While there, I met VDog’s mother-in-law, MC, who has her very own food blog and who was in town to take a bread baking class. Yay, lovely, hello, nice to meet you, all that jazz.

And then, this week, I noted on Twitter that VDog had invited me and our friend Deb Roby to stop by and pick up some of the extra bread left over from the baking class. I had already been to MC’s blog, and already had drooled on my computer screen over that biznass, so I required very little encouragement on this front.

I expected I might get to take home A loaf. A SINGLE loaf. But those ladies sent me out the door with nearly a half-dozen different kinds of freshly baked artisan bread. Flax. Pear-buckwheat. Millet. Corn. Whole wheat.

Sure, I blog for the sheer joy of writing. But when that leads to free artisan bread from a couple of rock star blog-ladies? I’m all over that.