And the winner is...

Did you see the Food Network Awards the other night? It seems like they had been advertising that event for YEARS before they finally aired it. It was mostly lame, but perhaps I am being harsh as this is the first time they have done something like this so there is bound to be room for improvement. Nigella was there looking gorgeous as ever and the Culinary Institute of America scholarship award segment had both J and I on the verge of tears so that made up for the musical performance by G. Love.

One of the awards was for "Hot" Chocolate - "Artisan confectioners raising the bar" and I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the nominees and the eventual winner was the author of a fantastic book I got last week:

I really like this book a lot and can't wait to start making some of the confections once school is done.

Another winner that just totally blew me away was artist Liz Hickok. She makes cities out of jello and oh my God! - that's just incredible.

Somewhat off topic but food related is a link from Not Martha that I just DIED over. It's the cake baked in egg shells tutorial from Delicious Days. I just can't even tell you how much I love that. I can see coating the eggs in a poured fondant like you do with Petit Fours. Oh they would be so cute! Sometimes things connect and I get sort of an affirmation to the ideas I am attracted to. This magazine clipping I ripped from the now defunct Victoria magazine a few years ago fell out of a cupboard yesterday when I was reaching for a cookbook:

Chocolates in egg shells. It's like two worlds colliding.