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I am 28 years old and live in Sarnia, Ontario. I currently work for my other halfs internet/phone company as a receptionist. I am a artist however, I dabble in watercolour, oil arcylic and photography.

25 year old working on doctorate degree in Public Administration. Love to cook. Love to eat.

I'm a 49 year old academic librarian. Married with 3 teenagers. Love to cook, love to eat. Am looking forward to more travel with my husband in the coming years. I used to read a lot of fiction, but I seem to have less tolerance for it these days. I've recently read "Belva Lockwood: the Woman Who Would be President" (boring book, interesting woman) and am currently reading "Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver" (really interesting).

I'm a 19 year old student on Vancouver Island, BC, doing a politcal science degree and experimenting with food in my basement apartment. I read this site and dream of my life in 10 years.

I'm a sixty year old husband, father and grandfather who is employed as a facility coordinator for the local school district. That is for at least another year. I'm retiring in June next year. I love to read, fish, cook and eat. Will be able to do more of each of those things next year at our summer place on Saginaw bay of lake Huron. Pity the poor perch and walleyes of Caseville Mi.

After 20-plus years as a reporter/photographer for a small town newspaper, returned to college for a BS in technical communication in 1998 at age 45. Now I work as an admin. asst./tech. writer for the collegiate division of a small science and engineering research university in new mexico. Divorced, mother to a son and daughter (24, 21). Big Sunday dinners are my specialty, love to try new recipes, read cookbooks for fun. When and if I retire, plan to eat my way through Europe.

A 23 year old Development Associate at a major hospital in Chicago. Grew up with my mom baking up a storm year round, so I took to it pretty quickly. I love to cook, but prefer making sweets. I am amassing a huge selection of cookbooks - my guilty reading pleasure!

engineer. I just finished grad school and have started working.

28 year old executive assistant in Palo Alto, CA. Have loved cooking and eating yummy foods for years. Was very close to going to Le Cordon Bleu but in the end opted not to, had just finished my Bachelor's degree and the thought of going back to school was too much.

29 year old legal assistant in Wyoming. Yeah, I think I'm more remote than most foodies, but I try!

Profession: Writer - I have a book about NYC restaurants coming out in September.
Age: 29
Location: Harlem
Random: My French bulldog is a raw foodist

What a great question! I've always been curious.

Registered clinical dietitian (AKA The Food Police) at a local hospital

I am a 29 year old graduate of culinary school. I have been working in restaurant management and catering. Avid cook and reader. Love facts about all things food related....as much as my friends loathe hearing about them! I would love to be a food historian.
I also am a pop culture junkie, love to travel, have a serious book and magazine addiction, and one of my favorite moments to date was snorkling with manatee's- it was a dream come true.

23; degree in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA; starting my Ph.D in Infectious Disease at Berkeley this fall. Discovered the infinitely exciting world of food when I relocated from small-town Michigan to LA at the age of 17. Then on to nor-Cal; San Fransisco is a food-lover's paradise!

I love this community of individuals who all share the same deep appreciation. Thank you all for sharing.

I'm 18 years old, and just finished my first year at the University of Chicago where I'm majoring in Music. I've loved to cook and bake since about seventh grade, when my brownies caused riots among my classmates, a craze that lasted until the day we graduate (and beyond, for those of my classmates I've stayed in touch with). I'm addicted to several food blogs, and aspire to write my own. For now, though, I take tons of pictures of the food I cook and post them on Facebook.

32 and recently remarried mom of a 13 y/o boy who is an adventurous and enthusiastic eater. The new husband doesn't fit that description but he's learning. 30+ years of farm living created a limited palate.

I am a grumpy and reluctant logistics/distribution clerk for a major food company and an aspiring pastry chef- should wrap up my AAS in culinary arts this week, yahoo! I work part time in camp kitchen that hosts Quaker (or Friends Church) kids in the summer plus banquets and retreats for all in the off season. I'm paid a 3rd of what I earn at my day job but I love the camp work a million times more.

I also yearn for a decent fish market or at the least, access to fresh and locally grown veggies for more than 3 months out of the year!

25yrs old. live in nyc. grew up on long island. i'm your avg kid. i like to go out, hang with my friends, love the beach and hate my job--i work in finance-blah. food blogs are the only thing that keep me going through out the day. don't know why but i love reading about food and different restaurants, especially in nyc. i love to eat, cook and to go out to eat but it doesn't happen very often. i would cook more but space, money & time are limited. i look fwd to my 30's when i own a house and can cook for my family.

35 year old, computer security geek, recently relocated to Columbus from the Bay Area via Ann Arbor. I've been cooking since I was 5 though never really got into baking until the last year or so where I've been obsessing over pie crust and pastries.

I'm 38, married to my best friend, and love to cook and bake. I'm a published author on a variety of subjects, but mostly on careers and collaboration issues. I'm also a technical writer and editor for software companies. A few years ago, I started a small chocolate company Deb's Delectables, but I took it offline this year because we're renovating the space. In my spare time, I keep two blogs: Here and There, and Altered Plates.

I'm a 55-year-old writer/editor, author/co-author of 5 cookbooks, most recently A GREAT AMERICAN COOK with chef Jonathan Waxman, and before that my own all-immersion-blender cookbook, YOUR KITCHEN'S MAGIC WAND. I live in Manhattan with my boyfriend, Jonathan, who's 35 years younger than me, somehow. He's an actor/singer, Broadway bound. We have a basset hound, Elsa, who loves carrots, green peppers, cheese, and peanut butter, all of which she gets daily, in small quantities.

32 yo band/choir teacher in SE Michigan. Love food, love to cook, but don't get to too often with an autistic son (very picky eater), and a husband raised on velveeta...

I'm a 19 year old australian student studying animal science. I hope to get a job in the agriculture industry. I'm a vegetarian and I am fitness mad (think cycling, marathon running and competitive horseriding as part of my hobbies) I also enjoy cooking, but not baking. And eating of course (hence the need for obsessive amounts of exercise)

Amazing reading these!!

currently work as an audio engineer in an archive and as a line cook. I have an MA in folklore and occasionally work as a folklorist doing documentary work and give lectures/teach short courses on various aspects of vernacular culture. I also try to be a musician: play bass in a noise-rock band, play with a couple experimental groups, some old-time music when I can, and some french horn when applicable. Throughout the years I have been a sandwich artist at both Schlotzky's and Subway, a teacher of composition and rhetoric, a roofer, a carpenter, worked on landscaping crews, audio engineer at a tv station, special effects coordinator for independent films, a flea exterminator, a warehouse shipper/receiver, worked for UPS as a loader and 2 years on the large-sort aisle, VISTA volunteer, substitute teacher, non-profit office worker, pre-school teaching assistant, server for a catering company, and it scares me that this list is so long and I am only 31 years old.

23 yr old working in a Boston research lab studying the immunology of Hepatitis C patients that abuse substances and are co-infected with HIV.

I am a 28 year-old lawyer in NYC. I particularly love Ed Levine and his team's knowledge and commentary on NYC food of course!

Full time Paramedic and aspiring part time caterer!

I'm so happy to see a fellow technical writer, and a few folks from Minneapolis! I am a usability specialist, live in Mpls, and love eating, ballet, and baseball (go Twins!) My husband is in culinary school, aspiring to work in test kitchens, like General Mills.

Location Manager and Production Coordinator for indie movies. Living in Brooklyn but considering a move next year to...anywhere, really. And I'm 23.

I'm a 46 year-old mom of two active teenagers and wife to super-lawyer husband. Grew up in a very priviledged home with LOTS of help - never in a million years did I dream that I'd love cooking my own food, working in my own garden, cleaning my own house! I am not as talented as most of you, so I'm feeling pretty humble, but I love reading about your wonderful accomplishments. I started cooking when we moved to a city where I knew no one and had a toddler on my hip - it was a lifesaver! Now it's a hobby I enjoy more and more. Cookies are my specialty, but I'm happy cooking anything!

18 years old and majoring in Japanese at Bard College in NY. I love baking and cooking and have ever since I found a copy of Nigella Lawson's 'How to be a Domestic Goddess' in an airport. I started cooking to relieve stress during the school year and have kept it up ever since!

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I'm 23, live in Minneapolis, work in Publicity for a book publisher, and tend to be a food evangelist to my picky eater friends. I found this site through the Amateur Gourmet, which I found through Orangette, who I discovered when her book deal was announced in a tiny blurb in Publishers Weekly. It makes me so happy to find people even more into food than I am! Thank you SE!

I'm almost 26, and am a journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have had the wonderful opportunity, while working at the newspaper in Lodi, Calif., to judge a clam chowder cook off, a chili cook off (with 30 pots of chili!), do some food writing and do a restaurant profile. I enjoy making desserts. I've been cooking since taking classes in 4-H in third grade, though I'm not as good of a cook as I'd like to be and know little about gourmet foods (though I'm learning through this blog!).

Such great diversity here! I'm 43, live in the Seacoast area on the MA/NH border. I love living near the ocean and bring my 2 rotties to the beach every morning. Beyond that, I left corporate America (insurance industry) to work with my husband in his computer business. I also work with dogs doing canine massage, reiki and acupressure. I have always loved to cook & bake. I have learned so much from the myriad food blogs I peruse..it's amazing how much food there is to explore. At the moment I am pondering the truffles that were given to me by a friend who received them from his friend during his visit from Italy....ah, truffles from Italy!

we should all throw a big potluck party!!!

im soooooo glad I started this topic...

I'm 55, originally from Denver, living in Manhattan for the last 35 years. After a quarter century as a high-tech management consultant, I'm now the right hand person to a well-known restaurateur, thanks to a felicitous introduction by our beloved SE overlord. I'm lucky enough to have an outdoor space big enough for two smokers and a grill.

I'm 25, working at a large anti-homelessness charity, an ESL teacher to adults and a project officer for an education consultancy (yawn!)
I'm also a freelance writer!

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I'm a 65 year young retiree....looking for my next occupation. Currently I'm trying to learn how to write, after reading voraciously all my life.. I've done a bit of editing in the past and written a newsletter for an orchid society, and articles regarding computers and their operation. I've been messing with computers since the early 70's.

I'm retired from Economic and Small Biz Development in CA, living in mid-coastal OR....home of no restaurants and no grocery stores of any merit....LOL. I do a lot of beading, primarily dog portraits and this is my relaxation....mindless stitching of wee beads..it's great.

Aren't we a wonderfully diverse group? It makes me happy to see younger people very interested in food, in my age group everyone is taking Geritol and eating soft foods....borrrrring. I like ethnic foods of Eastern Europe, India, Mexico, and I love Cajun food too.
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50 yo missionary. Seattle native been in the Czech Republic for ten years. Left grad school in Eugene, OR and became a rabbit rancher, remodeling and new construction contractor, delivery truck driver, church administrator, mortgage broker, pastor and missionary. I know both wealth and poverty and have eaten my way virtually around the world enjoying the haute and the not so hot! I can prepare most of it. I may have changed careers often but cooking has been an abiding hobby.

27 year old structural engineer in orlando, florida.

30 Independent cinema manager, stumbled across this site, tonight while putting together a short film about eating meat. (I was searching for soundbites I could rip off.)

Nice topic.

I'm a 24 yr. old middle school special ed. teacher in the Seattle area. Love to cook!

29 yr old rock DJ from Lancaster, PA.

and a Professional Doer of Things.

48 yr old accountant for a large non profit org. Love food and have really started to enjoy the process and preparation as much as the results.