Today, I boarded an airplane coming home from the annual Seattle Green Festival where 2,400 people attended. I spoke in the afternoon to a packed room of people who share a common interest in the way we eat and think about food today, a theme that currently runs through my webpage, cookbooks, and food and wine columns.

Previous to climbing on stage, I'd been in a yoga class promoted in the festival's brochure, wearing a pair of leggings and festival sweat shirt and in my state of yogi bliss, I almost missed my introduction on stage.

Backstage, I quickly put on my head set and crossed to cen...