This week we are going to be highlighting the stories, recipes and photography of a keynote speaker and the teachers of two of our classes at The Creative Connection Event that is happening in just 60 days! And we have a GREAT giveaway for you, too!

NOW…please help me welcome Todd and Diane of White on Rice.

Hello & Chaò, we’re Todd and Diane. Welcome to our world of photography and food behind the kitchen, behind the scenes & behind the lens. We’re photographers, travelers and gardeners. Fueled by our love of local culture, people & rich heritage, we document powerful stories from around the world. We celebrate good food, great conversation, green gardening and traveling. For us, our lives have always been about love, family, friends, sharing, exploring & food. These four essentials of survival brought us together & eventually became the basic ingredients to molding our different backgrounds and personalities into one balanced dish.

We cook, consume and create from childhood comforts that our forefathers passed on through our heritage. But, we are not bound by it. Open to feeding both inside and outside our cultural comfort zones, we believe food holds few boundaries; so long as we understand and give respect/recognition to its origins. After many frustrations, failures and success, we continue to evolve at the stove and in our personal lives. We love our job. Of course there are always challenges that come with each project we photograph or film, but at the end of the day we are always thankful for the wonderful people that we work with and Cristina Ferrare is one of those wonderous souls that help us love our job to no end. Last year Cristina selected us to photograph her new cookbook, Big Bowl of Love, which is also the title of her cooking show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Currently, we are shooting the photos for a jewelry book.

Todd and Diane will be teaching two photography classes at The Creative Connection Event; Photography to Boost Your Creative Voice (Basic Digital) and Edible Images: Food Photography and Styling That Make People Want to Eat Your Photographs. Hurry over today and sign up for this amazing opportunity to learn from two extremely talented artists.

Todd and Diane’s BLT Spring Roll. Looks delicious doesn’t it?

As Todd and Diane mentioned, they were the photographers for Cristina Ferrare’s new book Big Bowl of Love. We at The Creative Connection are thrilled to announce that Cristina is one of our fabulous Keynote Speakers.

As an accomplished author, television personality, entrepreneur, actress, motivational speaker, blogger, wife, mother, and grandmother, Cristina Ferrare dishes out yet one more curtain call: hosting her own show for OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network. Cristina Ferrare’s Big Bowl of Love features celebrity guests along with members of Cristina’s family and friends who serve up great ideas for all kinds of real-life situations. Cristina recently joined the “Oprah family” as a regular contributor, featuring Oprah’s favorite meals, and hosting a series of web cooking classes for Oprah.com—preparing delicious meals for families on tight budgets and little time.

Cristina is a New York Times bestselling author of Okay, So I Don’t Have a Headache, Cristina Ferrare’s Family Entertainment, and Cristina Ferrare Style. Her most recent book, Realistically Ever After, is a humorous view of finding happiness when he’s not Prince Charming, you’re not Snow White, and life is not a fairytale. Cristina has just completed her fifth book, a cookbook that came out in April, 2011 entitled A Big Bowl of Love.

Cristina lives in Los Angeles with her husband, seven children and four grandchildren.

We are so pleased that Cristina will be speaking at The Creative Connection’s keynote welcome dinner and also signing her cookbook at Autograph Party!

We are so excited about this weeks features that we are giving away 2 amazing prizes!

First, a Nikon Coolipix L22 12.0MP Digital Camera. This will be very useful when attending Todd and Diane’s class!

Second we are so happy to give one of you a copy of Cristina’s book, Big Bowl of Love. We know you will love it as much as we do.

RULES OF THE GIVEAWAY AND THE WAY YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING!

To enter, leave a comment below telling us what class you would be most excited to take and why during Mary Jane’s Farm Day at The Creative Connection.

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Remember to post separately for each additional entry and please only post the amount of entries allowed. Also, make sure we have a way to contact you. This contest ends on Thursday, July 12th at Midnight (MST), so make sure to get your comments in by then.

One more thing … Facebook rules are ever changing, so we aren’t requiring you to like our Facebook page but we sure would appreciate it. It not only makes it easier for you to find out about the great giveaways we have going on coming up but it also means that good cooking karma will bestow bread that always rises and souffles that never fall on you!

 

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