Thank You for Another Successful Show!

Thank you to everyone who attended the show.  We hope you had a great time.  Stay tuned to this site for photos and video from this season’s event.  For those of you who could not come, we look forward to seeing you next year!

A special thanks to our host, Standards of Excellence and their beautiful show room.  Thanks to Celebrity Foods for providing the fine gourmet food samples and to KFI Radio for the wonderful advertising.Most of all, thank you to Platinum Cookware and Bill Handel for putting on such an successful, entertaining event!

The KFI Platinum Cookware show took place this past weekend. It was a lot of fun to meet so many listeners and new friends. I really enjoyed myself. Of course, it’s hard not to enjoy yourself when people are handing out free food.

If you didn’t get a chance to meet Bill and I at the show, here are a couple of photos of Bill running the cooking demonstration. In typical Bill form, he was shouting and bouncing all over the place the entire time (despite his microphone). He nearly lost his voice altogether, yesterday.

Also, if you missed the event, then you missed your chance to taste our favorite Celebrity Foods. I’m sure that they’d setup a tasting for you, if you give them a call, though. Call my contact there — Jim Miller at 888-632-5746. Tell him that Marjorie told you to ask about getting an after-event sample.

I will joining Bill at the KFI Platinum Cookware show to represent Celebrity Foods.  I’d love to meet some of my readers and Bill’s listeners, as well as share some Celebrity Foods samples with you.  You’ll even be able to see our cookware in action — preparing more Celebrity Foods, of course.

Here’s a clip from Bill’s show that mentions it:
Listen to the Show Clip
Here’s a link to more info on the show: http://www.platinumcookware.com/

So, why did I decide to start a blog? Well, one reason was to share family secrets — products and services that we’ve discovered and can’t live without

It’s always been our family’s policy to only recommend products that we really believe in. For years, Bill refused to promote any products on his show, fearing that it would be a slippery slope into having to sell people junk that he didn’t believe in. Over time, he’s taken a new approach: he (and I) are willing to promote products on the air, but only if we actually use them, love them, and regularly recommend them to our friends. So, here’s where I’m going to share my first recommendation with you:

Celebrity Foods New York Cheesecake is the world’s BEST cheesecake.

About a week ago, we were with some friends at an Academy Awards dinner party. We had volunteered to bring a dessert, and I didn’t have time to make anything or get to the bakery. My saving grace was sitting in the freezer, though. We had a New York Cheesecake from Celebrity Foods sitting in our freezer (we try to always keep one on-hand, in case of emergency). I was a little worried, though — we hadn’t had a dessert emergency for months, if not a year, so this was an old cheesecake. I decided to chance it, though — Celebrity does a really great job packaging their products, so I wasn’t too worried about freezer burn, anyhow. So, we were off to our party, cheesecake defrosting along the way.

Dinner was wonderful, and then someone said, “Time for cheesecake!” (Okay I admit it, great freezer packaging or not, you get a little worried when you’re bringing year old cheesecake to a dinner party!) By now the cake was thawed, and it was quickly sliced up and dished out. I searched my friends’ faces for a reaction when they took their first tastes. As soon as she finished her first bite, a friend across the table from me said, “Marjorie, where did you get this cheesecake? This is the best cheesecake I’ve ever had!” So I told her, I got it from Celebrity Foods — we’ve been ordering our food from them for years.

And guess what? I’ve decided to start advertising for them. I will be recording radio commercials this weekend to tell all of Bill’s listeners about how much we love the products and service.

Yum.