Cherry Bombe's Jubilee is the conference in THE food world. Amanda Polick has been before, took a few years off, and went back this year with an actual game plan and a lot of thoughts she's whispering to her friends later.

This episode is her honest debrief: what worked, what left her wanting more, and what she walked away with that had nothing to do with any of the panels.

In this episode:

• Why going in with a loose schedule and a short list of people she wanted to meet changed everything
• Her real talk on conference programming that stays too surface when the room is full of people who came for the inside baseball
• The Levain Bakery founders, copycat recipes, and the conversations she wished had gone deeper
• Why she cried meeting Grace Young and has zero regrets about it
• The follow-up moves that actually matter after a conference ends

The best thing she got out of Jubilee wasn't from the talks. It was the face-to-face time, texting new connections already, and the moment she shared her novel idea and watched people get chills.

Perfect for: food writers and creatives weighing whether a conference is worth it, and anyone who's left a big event feeling like they missed something and wanted someone to just say it.

Find Amanda: @amandapolick | amandapolick.com