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The now famous Doof-A-Palooza was nearly 2 weeks ago, and I am just now finding the time to sit down and write about it. In case you aren’t familiar with this event, it is an annual interactive celebration of the new TV show, DOOF, due out on Public Television in 2009. DOOF celebrates food, kids and nutrition in a fun, interesting and entertaining way!

I should start by thanking the wonderful crew that came to help at our booth, What’s Cooking at the Toddler Cafe. Thanks Maria, Jessica and Drew!!!! I hope that your pay of Boon Snack Balls and Dried Cherries was enough to show our gratitude!

While our children were cooking on the Pretend Food Show set with celebrity chef, Joey Altman, we were slammed with nearly 1500 visitors, all of whom were eager to learn how to recycle and make healthy snacks! It was such fun, especially when our own kids dropped by to visit us (with freshly squeezed lavender lemonaide, Indian Food, Vietnamese Spring Rolls and Chocolate lollipops with pop rocks buried inside!).

We rekindled our relationship with Lisa Barnes of Petit Appetit and Mike and Olivier, the owners of Kitchen on Fire, a cooking school in Berkeley. It was also a joy to cook with the son (4 times!) of Charles, the executive director of Slide Ranch, a non-profit teaching farm on the coast near San Francisco. He has invited me to be a guest chef in his new outdoor kitchen this fall!

Here are a few images, taken by Dave Wong, to wet your taste buds for next year!