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And that King would be "King Arthur Flour"......the Famous flour company based in Vermont... In the Atlanta area this week........if there's some sort of free class in town You can always find me and neighbor Necie the first to sign up.... They brought their traveling baking show to the Marietta County Club for two shows.... We opted for the noon class on "yeast sweet breads".... The night time class was all about pies and tarts...... These two lovely bakers greeted us at the door with the recipe book and our door prize coupon.......And alot of door prizes were about to be given out.... A bit blurry as we were sitting about a dozen rows back......but check out all that flour and boxes of specialty mixes.....a few really great aprons.....some baking tools and one really great cookbook.....And who was the first person to score a door prize..... No....not me.....neighbor Necie..... with an overhead screen for good viewing the instructor gave us a full two hours of ...

Meet the ladies of Atlanta...... I have no idea who these ladies are but you will learn more about them later on in the post..... I have lived in Atlanta for 26 years and have driven past the Swan Coach House on Paces Ferry Road hundreds of time......so when Flour Power Joyce e-mailed me earlier in the week and asked if I wanted to go to lunch she suggested the Swan Coach House.... Now you all know when me and Joyce get together we cause havoc but since we were going to a Southern "ladies who lunch" Landmark We were on our best behavior....... Plus Rose the Santamaker wasn't with us so there was no one to embarrass...... After valet parking and Joyce giving the parking guy the business about not knowing how the fancy gadgets on her new car worked.... He assured us that this was not his first BMW that he was parking and she reluctantly turned over the keys..... We got inside just in time for our 1:00 reservation..... And nothing says a classy place for lunch like a reserva...

2009 was a wonderful year for me.....I opened up my horizons in the blog world and have been so fortunate to meet such wonderful people....... I think back to the first thing that came in the mail over a year ago and the Boss was so confused why a perfect stranger was sending me something..... That perfect stranger was Laura from the Shorehouse Chic and she sent me a book that she thought I would enjoy reading.... In with the book was a note saying when I was done reading it to just send it along to someone who I might think would enjoy it too.... And a friendship was born..... Some time after that I met Cheri from Geer Gathering...... Cheri lived right here in Georgia and after meeting for the first time we became the best of friends........Cheri just moved to Birmingham and I really miss her.... Right before leaving for Jersey for the holidays this beautiful "Boo" charm arrived in the mail..... How perfect a gift..... But her friendship is the real gift..... But things cont...