• It's not like I checked IDs or anything but I think I was the oldest person in attendance. By at least a decade. Is the general population of those approaching 50 so illweberate that they don't blog?



• When it comes to bloggers, I'm like a bartender with his customers — I couldn't remember their names to save my life but I could remember names of their blogs.



• Devin of Foodbuzz caused a stir when she said that she didn't like bacon. "You don't like bacon???" everyone at the table gasped. Even A Few Reservations, a dedicated vegetarian, admitted "meat has passed these lips," citing a particularly yummy encounter with bacon at Burning Man.



• Speaking of carnivorous vegetarians, a Foodbuzz intern earned a round of applause when she informed the room that she'd been a vegetarian until she'd been induced to try a brunch cheeseburger at Foreign Cinema. It was so good that she began to eat meat. I was seriously bummed when I looked at the brunch menu on Foreign Cinema's web site and saw that the cheeseburger was absent. Bring it back, please. I want to try it.



• If you're going to work at Foodbuzz, it helps to be an omnivore. One of the Foodbuzz crew proclaimed, "We don't hire vegans." The room collectively raised their wine glasses in approval.



• It turns out that one of Foodbuzz's Featured Publishers, Cooking for my Wife, is married to a Foodbuzz employee, a fact that was not known within Foodbuzz until the day before the dinner. Being a grump, I'm always on the lookout for things can go wrong and this scenario struck me as being fraught with landmines. Imagine this hypothetical conversation, which I'm assured didn't really happen:

Foodbuzz Colleague: Can you believe Cooking for my Wife's latest post? That guy's an idiot and his blog sucks.

Wife of Cooking for my Wife: That's my husband's blog!

Foodbuzz Colleague: Oh...um...how 'bout those Giants???



• Again, I'm assured that this didn't really happen. And Cooking for my Wife doesn't suck.



• I was in for a surprise when I met Ryan Stern, Foodbuzz's Managing Editor. It turns out that Ryan is...well, I'm not going to tell you. I got the feeling that Ryan enjoys seeing people's reactions.



• From start to finish the meal was great but the diners who ordered the risotto did seem to contract serious cases of food envy when they saw the chicken.

At the risk of sounding like a shill, if you enjoy reading about food, check out the Foodbuzz site as it's a good one-stop shop that aggregates a number of food-related blogs. And, if you're a food blogger who wants to get more exposure and maybe make a few bucks, check out the Featured Publisher Program. The Foodbuzz team is a truly nice bunch.