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Class Attendance, Take Two

Back in March I took class attendance to get an idea of who was reading the site. Now that we've had a media blitz (that's a fun thing to say: media blitz), I'd love for conspicuously quiet regular site readers to come out of the woodwork. New ones too. So, if you don't mind, can you please share with us:

Name:
Location:
How You Found The Site:
Occupation:
Favorite Utensil:

Thanks! And old site readers, you can play too.

Comments (120)

Name: Jen
Location: Kansas
Marital Status: long term relationship
Martial Status (black belt, etc): my boyfriend has a blue belt...
How You Found The Site: link from another site
Occupation: industrial design student
Favorite Utensil: fingers

Name: Meg
Location (physical): Nashville
Location (metaphysical): www.saucylibrarian.com
How I found Your Site: during boobie cupcake frenzy
Occupation: hotel front desk
Favorite Utensil: Spatula - So much flipping, so little time...

Name: Lisa
Location: Harrisburg, PA // Chicago, IL
How You Found The Site: I don't really remember actually...a link from someone
Occupation: Student at Loyola Chicago and waitress during the summer
Favorite Utensil: Spatula, wooden or plastic handle with rubber thats not to hard but not too soft either.

Name: Jo
Location: Austin
How You Found The Site: Turns out it was from the Janet Jackson Cupcakes link on Metafilter. Speaking of which, has anyone been to see a movie lately and see her little CDletts that come on top of the large drinks? I could not resist finding two and placing them over my nipples. Ok, TMI, but really.
Occupation: Geek
Favorite Utensil: Those big plastic spoons you get with Pho.

Name: Andrew
Location: Born in ATL, School in Boston, and currently in Poreta, Italy
How You Found The Site: eGullet
Occupation: Student/cook
Favorite Utensil: my santoku knife. it's deadly.

Name: Jacqueline
Location: (was) NYC, (now) Milan, Italy
How You Found The Site: Don't remember. Must be one of the food blogs . Chez Pim, I think...
Occupation: Quantitative analyst
Favorit Utensil: Wooden spoon

Name: cooker
Location: NYC
How You Found The Site: Google
Occupation: Fish eater
Favorit Utensil: large fork

My name is Delilah
I live in Kiev, Ukraine (i'm from San Fran)
I was surfing through food blogs, and followed a link to the "Is my blog burning?" Condaleeza Rice pudding recipe. It was entertaining, and I just keep coming back for more!
I am a Peace Corps volunteer.
My favorite utensil is my paring knife, with the accessory, knife sharpener!

Name: Leslie
Location: Rhode Island
How You Found The Site: Accidentally, thanks to those janet jackson cupcakes.
Occupation: Student and food fiend.
Favorite Utensil: The spoon!

Name: Calrion (that'll do)
Location: Brisbane, Australia
How You Found The Site: Typad featured sites
Occupation: IT Professional
Favorite Utensil: pasta pot—so convenient!

Name: Kristy
Location: Austin
How You Found The Site: starsandgarters.blogs.com
Occupation: archivist
Favorite Utensil: microspatula

Name: Pete
Location: Cambridge,MA
How You Found the Site: From your egullet postings.
Occupation: engineer
favorite utensil: my chef's knife or my tongs

Name: Samantha

Location: Lovely NYC suburbs (ie Fairfield county CT)

How You Found The Site: Typepad

Occupation: Was IT professional, now returning to culinary field

Favorite Utensil(s): Tongs, heatproof spatula and silpats

Name: Carter
Location: Austin
How You Found the Site: Some food blog about 2 weeks ago
Occupation: programmer
Favorite Utensil: grapefruit spoon

Name:leslie
Location:Akron, OH
How You Found The Site:eGullet
Occupation:CSR
Favorite Utensil:Wooden Spatula/Spoon

Name: Forrest
Location: Taneichi, Iwate, Japan
How You Found The Site: Link from another when madly adding food blog links to aggregator
Occupation: Middle School Teacher
Favorite Utensil: SHARP knives

Name: Beth
Location: Washington, DC area
How You Found the Site: http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com
Occupation: Art Director
Favorite Utensil: Its a toss up between my flat whisk and the kick ass tongs that make me feel like a professional.

Name: Jen
Location: Decatur
How you found site: AJC article
Occupation: Realtor
Favorite Utensil: Wooden Spoon

Name: Kat
Location: Houston, TX
How I found the site: Searching for new blogs to read (google) and found yours close to the time of the Janet cupcakes story.
Occupation: Office manager for a custom home builder
Favorite utensil: A short, small perfectly squared off spatula with no drainage holes. It may not seem useful but it's great for making anything that required scraping the bottom of a saucepan, etc.

Name: Jeanne
Location on planet: London
Location on the Web: http://cooksister.typepad.com/cook_sister
How You Found The Site: Typepad featured site
Occupation: Work in a law firm with the knowledge management team
Favorite Utensil: non-stick omelette pan

Name: Sara
Location: Austin, Tx
How you found the site: little.yellow.different's miniblog link to the cupcake
Occupation: student, nanny, and possibly about to become a personal chef at the beginning of next week
Favorite utensil: sharp knives

Name: Katie
Location: Boston, MA (but I'm Australian)
How you found the site: Typepad Featured sites
Ocupation: Graduate student in phyysics
Favorite utensil: Egg whisk

Name:mary
Location: Atlanta
How I Found Site: AJC article
Occupation:Attorney (you really should be studying more for the bar exam)
Favorite Utensil:corkscrew

Name: Ritilan
Location: Atlanta
Found site via: Google
Ocupation: Sr. Network Engineer
Favorite Utensil: 3 quart Saucier

Name: Jennifer
Location: Raleigh, NC
Found Site: Link from other website
Occupation: Chemist, Freelance Writer
Favorite Utensil: Pastry Blender (So many uses other than pastry!!!)

Name:dms
Location:NY (the western side)
How You Found The Site: another cupcake convert
Occupation: Marketing
Favorite Utensil: Wooden Lemon/Lime Juicer

Name: Sara
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
How you found the site: My husband found it thru a link to your cupcake article.
Occupation: Financial
Favorite Utensil: My tongs and my small whisk, but I have 2 drawers full of small utensils.

Name: Anne
Location: NYC
Found site via: Clotilde
Occupation: books (editorial)
Favorite utensil: Wusthof knife

Name: Jeanette
Location: Chicago, IL/Singapore
Found Site Via: the JJ cupcake madness
Occupation: writing final papers...i mean, Student
Favourite Utensil: potato peeler. =)

Name: Kate
Location: CT
How You Found The Site: Kinja | Food
Occupation: hip Mom
Favorite Utensil: I gotta go with wooden spoon, too.

Name: Kate from the USA
Location:The Hague, Netherlands
How You Found The Site: clickover
Occupation: self-employed hotelier
Favorite Utensil: whisk

Beautiful Site-mine needs a lot of improvement
;-)

Name: Jennifer Hamilton (aka: Domestic Goddess and soon to be aka: The Sweetish Chef)
Location: Toronto, Canada
How I Found Your Site: link from Chocolate & Zucchini, I think...
Occupation(s): Part-time Nurse, Part-time budding Pastry Chef
Favourite (spelled with Canadian/British Spelling) Utensil: does my KitchenAid count? if not then my small off-set spatula..you'd be surprised just how many tools it can replace...not that I'd ever actually replace them...God forbid!

Name: Andrew
Location: NYC
How You Found The Site: via someplace
Occupation: law student
Favorite Utensil: Spork!

Name: Jay
Location: Metro Atlanta Area
How You Found The Site: Google
Occupation: IT nerd
Favorite Utensil: (tie) chef's knife and tongs

Name: Jessica
Location: Brighton, England
How You Found the Site: The cupcakes, of course.
Occupation: Translator and part-time grad student (linguistics)
Favorite Utensil: The trusty wooden spoon!

Name: Mara
Location: Chicago
Found site: Josh & Katy via Nate
Occupation: soon-to-be law student
Favorite utensil: spoon

Name: Nanc
Location: Dallas, TX
How You Found the Site: link from Not Martha (re: Nat'l Carb Awareness Day post)
Occupation: unemployed TechWriter
Favorite Utensil: whisk.. no, tongs! Arghhh - I like them all.

Name: Mark
Location: Centre Hall, PA
How You Found The Site: Uh, I have you in my RSS agregator... ;-)
Occupation: Network Engineer
Favorite Utensil: Mandolin

Name: Katharine
Location: Atlanta
How You Found The Site: you skipped rehearsal to be on CNN during the cupcake craze
Occupation: arts administrator, soon to be law student
Favorite Utensil: demitasse spoon

Name: Jill
Location: Akron, Oh (Hello Leslie!)
How Found: Chocolate and Zucchini link
Occupation: Librarian
Favorite Utensil: Fingers

Name: Dani
Location: North Carolina
How You Found The Site: I found it through a crafting site that was linking to your carb awareness day. The blog was megan[dot]scatterbrain, and she calls herself the non-Martha Stewart.
Occupation: Customer service
Favorite Utensil: Microwave! I don't cook; I just read about food. I don't have the patience for anything that takes longer than a minute-thirty in the microwave :-).

Name: Jill
Location: Akron, Ohio (Hello Leslie!)
How Found: Chocolate and Zucchini link
Occupation: Librarian
Favorite Utensil: Fingers

Name: Lisa
Location: WA
How You Found The Site: The first time it was the cupcakes via Metafilter. But Carb Awareness Day via kottke brought me back to stay.
Occupation: Programmer
Favorite Utensil: Slotted spoon that has a flat end like a spatula. I don't have one of these but I've been looking. So useful!

Name: Matilda
Location: Montreal, Canada
How You Found The Site: eGullet
Occupation: graphic designer / dreamer / fellow amateur gourmet
Favorite Utensil: rasp

Name: Lynn
Location: San Francisco
How You Found The Site: Via Chocolate & Zucchini. I came for the reviews and stayed for the QuickTimes.
Occupation: Graphic Designer/Photographer
Favorite Utensil: Tongs. I came to tongs later in life and so they are all the more precious to me.

Name: Lenn
Location: Sayville, NY (Long Island)
How You Found The Site: A food blog list somehwere...I don't even remember
Occupation: Writer
Favorite Utensil: Chop stick...just one...two is just over doing it.

Name: Mike
Location: Wisconsin
How you found site: another food blog, can't remember which one
Occupation: grad student
Utensil: the knife (8 inch Global)

Name: Cate
Location:East Lansing, Michigan
Occupation: Healthcare Administrator
How I found the Site: A link from Foodgoat.
Favorite utensil:The grater-no question.

Location: London
How I found the site: Felt like making cupcakes, searched google for a good recipe and happened upon your Janet Jackson creations
Occupation: Student
Favourite utensil: My wok (I study Japanese) or my trusty wooden spoon

Name: Seema
Location: Seattle, WA
Occupation: PhD Student / Every night when I'm asleep, I'm also a restaurant owner chef.
How I found the site: From Chocolate & Zucchini I think.
Favorite Utensil: My authentic stone mortar-pestle and my J.A. Henckels knife.

Name: Prim
Location: Germany
Occupation: Lady of Lesuire ;-)
How I Found the Site: Typepad
Favorite Utensil: Wusthof Chef's knife

Name: John
Location: Seattle
How You Found The Site: Umm. Don't remember. Must have been linked somewhere, maybe boingboing?
Occupation: USENET administrator
Favorite Utensil: Spork.

Name: Beth
Location: London or Singapore
How You Found The Site: through Chocolate & Zucchini
Occupation: Law student
Favorite Utensil: Chopsticks are the most useful, but a zester is the cutest of them all.

Name: Hadley
Location: Pensacola, FL
How You Found The Site: Don't really remember--back in February--most likely Janet Jackson cupcakes.
Occupation: Student
Favorite Utensil: Dough Blender

Name: Emily
Location: Boston-ish
How You Found The Site: eGullet -- the "upside down pineapple kugel" story!
Occupation: intellectual property lawyer by day, uh...asleep by night
Favorite Utensil: 3-way tie (lame!) between silicone spatula, OXO tongs, and flat olive-wood spoonula I got for $1 at an antiques shop.

Name: Lacy
Location: Orange County, CA
How You Found The Site: From Chocolate and Zucchini
Occupation: IT tech, frustrated writer, amature gourmet =)
Favorite Utensil: My brand new bright red Kitchen Aid Mixer! Does an appliance count as a utensil?

Name: Kristin
Location: Seattle-ish
How You Found The Site: Metafilter (the cupcake link)
Occupation: Student. I always feel a little pretentious when I call that an occupation.
Favorite Utensil: Spoon! But not a soup spoon.

Name: Charlie
Location: Iowa City, IA/Naperville, IL
How I Found the Site: Dave Barry's Blog?
Occupation: College Student/Summer Day Camp Counselor
Favorite Utensil: Meat Tenderizer

Name: Gregg
Location: Mempho
How...: eGullet
Occupation: Numbers runner
Fav Ute...: Tongs

Name: elizabeth
Location: atlanta
How You Found The Site: ajc
Occupation: student
Favorite Utensil: bread knife... it makes it so easy

Name: Seatle Bon Vivant

Location: Downtown Seattle

How You Found The Site: Searching for a Rhubarb I found your Strawberry-Rhubarb Cobbler"

Occupation:Interpreter/Translator

Favorite Utensil: My hands? ;-)

Name: Melissa
Location: New Orleans
How you found the site: largeheartedboy blog
Ocupation: Medical researcher
Favorite utensil: My professional Henkels boning knife

Name: Erin
Location: Atlanta
How I Found the Site: AJC article
Occupation: College Student
Favorite Utensil: Tongs

Name: Harry
Location: Modi'in, Israel
How I found the site: Through another food blog.
Occupation: Media whore
Favorite Utensils: My liquid injector bottle and my tongs. I love my damn tongs. They have changed my life.

Name: Kerry
Location: New Orleans
How I found this site: a friend thought I would like it & now I am an AG addict
Occupation: environmental consultant
Favorite Utensils: Tongs and Santoku Knife

Name: Luisa
Location: New York City
How I found the site: Chocolate & Zucchini
Occupation: literary scout
Favorite Utensils: Le Creuset cast-iron pot

Name: pasdquoi
Location: Philadelphia
How I found the site: I came here once for the breast cupcake (linked from somewhere else), then again for the Carb Awareness Day (another link) and now I am reading regularly.
Occupation: I work at a Large University in Philly-D
Favorite Utensil: My little whisk with a chicken on top! Oh the cuteness!

Name: karin
Location: Sacramento
How I found the site: link from Megan not Martha on National Carb Awareness Day
Occupation: Insurance Underwriter/Office Slob
Favorite Utensil: new olive oil poury bottle

Name:Megan
Location: Philadelphia
Found the site: Came in from Not Martha on Carb Awareness Day.
Occupation: College Admissions Coordinator
Favorite Utensil: rasp grater (and my apron!!! I'm a slob)

Name:Amy
Location:ATL- via Woodstock
How I found this website: Cupcake Link from AtlantaCuisine.com
Occupation: Accountant
Favorite Utensil: Mandoline (sp)

Name: bebs
Location: wales
How You Found The Site: general trawling
Occupation: teacher
Favorite Utensil: wooden stirry thing

Name: Jennifer
Location: Vermont USA
How You Found The Site: TypePad Featured Site
Occupation: former sorority president
Favorite Utensil: the blender

Name: Christine
Location: New Zealand
How You Found The Site: Kinja
Occupation: Programmer Geeky Person
Favorite Utensil: Chef's Knife

Name: Beth (aka Irielle or Iri)
Location: Twin Cities area
How You Found The Site: Through Not Martha's blog in the early days of the cupcake frenzy
Occupation: Fulltime Mom & aspiring writer
Favorite Utensil: spatula

Name: Josh
Location: rural Virginia USA
How You Found The Site: from another food blog, i forget
Occupation: University Paper Monkey
Favorite Utensil: spoons

Name: Naomi
Location: Aspen, Colo.
How You Found The Site: A friend researching blogs found it, loved it, and now I'm addicted
Occupation: reporter
Favorite Utensil: adustable measuring teaspon

Name: Anthony
Location: Perth, Australia
How You Found The Site: delicious
Occupation: ESL teacher
Favorite Utensil: Brieto M-11 cleaver

Name: Loretta
Locations: right outside NYC
How I found the site: who can remember?
Occupation: lawyer (and why is someone so talented in food and writing becoming one???)
favorite utensil: my maple cutting board from Vermont

Name: Leigh
Location: Columbus, OH (temporarily!)
How You Found The Site: typepad feature
Occupation: VP, Marketing
Favorite Utensil: french chef's knife (so fast, so perfect!)

Name: Jenifer
Location: Orange County, CA
How You Found The Site: Random blog reading...can't recall where.
Occupation: College student, p/t assistant to local attorney
Favorite Utensil: Melon Baller! Good times...

Name: Trey
Location: Jefferson, GA
How You Found The Site: Rumor
Occupation: Boss
Favorite Utensil: Wooden Spoon

Name: Mark
Location: Atlanta, GA
How You Found The Site: I was there from the beginning, of course
Occupation: Minature Golf Pro/Aspiring Philanthropist/Former Monk
Favorite Utensil: #2 Pencil, sharpened

Name: Lindsey
Location: Seattle
How You Found The Site: notmartha blog
Occupation: Student
Favorite Utensil: mmm tongs

Name: Zoe
Location: Florida
How You Found The Site: I was searching for information on Google about the Janet Jackson boob incident for a paper I was writing, and happened upon your site because of the cupcake thing.
Occupation: Student
Favorite Utensil: It's a tie between the bread knife and the melon baller.

Name:Jonathan
Location:Singapore
How You Found The Site:Typepad
Occupation:O-level student
Favorite Utensil:Whisk, and spatula; but it melted in the dishwasher.

Name: Danford
Location: Midwest, US
How You Found The Site: Largehearted Boy music blog
Occupation: Student
Favorite Utensil: my fingers

Name: Cate
Location: Atlanta
How You Found The Site: Your Per Se post on EGullet.com
Occupation: mom
Favorite Utensil: chopsticks

Name: Joseph
Location: Dallas
How You Found the Site: Typepad Featured site
Occupation: Bookseller
Favorite Utensil: Electric Carving Knife

*siddling into the back row quietly*

Name: s'kat. My parents were on drugs.

Location: Virginia, somewhere between the backwaters and the backwoods.

How You Found The Site: through eGullet

Occupation: While I work at a library, I'm not a librarian.

Favorite Utensil: Chopsticks.

Name: Karen
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
How you found the site: eGullet a couple of monts ago
Occupation: museum worker
Favorite Utensil: oh chopsticks, I'll have to go with that one too.

I was on vacation last week, can I still get credit for turning my assignment in late? I found you through a link on Bakerina's site, but I don't think she links you anymore. Alas! I live in Indy. I am a medical writer. I like tongs, which in my family we pronounce "tongases." A good big knife is also indispensable.

Name: Jonathan
Location: Montreal, Quebec - for the summer
Favorite AG Video: A Video Message from Lolita
How You Found The Site: after much pleading from the AG, I checked it out...
Occupation: Student
Favorite Utensil: rat tooth forceps

Name: Amity
Location: Atl
Found the Site: AJC article
Occupation: paralegal
Favorite utensil: chop sticks

Name: Annie-m
Location: NY, NY
Found the site: the JJ cupcake
Occupation: job-seeker
Favorite utensil: spring-loaded, locking tongs

I am buying some tongs this weekend. Clearly I am missing out on something.

Name: Avril
Location: Asheville, NC
Found the site: luck of the gods
Occupation: Aesthete
Favorite utensil: wooden spoon

name: Peter
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Found the site: late night blog trawl
Occupation: intrepid seeker of the truth
Favorite utensil: benriner japanese Vegie slicer

Name: Phil
Location: San Francisco
How You Found The Site: I can't recall- a link from another blog?
Occupation: Production Assistant on an animated TV show
Favorite Utensil: Hand mixer- its kinda silly

Name - Katherine
Location - Leeds, UK
Found the site - Typepad featured sites
Favourite utensil - Potato ricer

Name - Jimmy
Location - Atlanta, GA
Found this site - because Adam IMed me & said, "hey check out my site." I even got to shape the look of it.
Occupation - Television Producer
Favorite utensil - I am a painter of the utensil actually! I really like the spork, popularized by KFC.

Name: blair.
Location: Chicago, IL
How You Found The Site: eGullet. I think.
Occupation: Sofware Developer
Favorite Utensil: A good, sharp, and well-balanced knife

Name: Jason
Location: Buffalo, NY
How You Found The Site: Geeze, I can't really remember. Long time reader though.
Occupation: Web Designer
Favorite Utensil: I bought "toast tongs" at a store in Toronto. They are only my favorite utensel becuase I ended up losing them :(

Name: JenPink
Location: Nampa, ID
How You Found The Site: I don't recall exactly...probably surfing for xml/rss feeds
Occupation: technical writer
Favorite Utensil: Garlic press, hands down. No more stinky fingers!

Name: Catherine
Location: Singapore, Singapore. Only here for a semester though--I actually live in California.
Found this site: Link on Chocolate and Zucchini.
Occupation: Your mom! Er... making stupid your mom jokes. Err... Applied mathematics student. (That's why my jokes are so bad.)
Favorite utensil: Knife. They never give you knives here. You have no idea how much you need a knife until you can't get one.

Name: Kate
Location: Seattle, WA
How You Found The Site: Word of mouth!
Occupation: English Teacher
Favorite Utensil: Wooden Spatula

i ma looking for the recipe for a good "tres leches cake".
can anyone help?

i am looking for the recipe of a good "tres leches cake".
can anyone help..............
thnx

Name: Erin
Location: NYC
How You Found The Site: Don't remember.
Occupation: Ad Sales
Favorite Utensil:Zwilling J.A. Henckels Four Star Knife

Sure would love the recipe for your friend Craig's dad's apple pie - if it's not a special family secret, would he share? Thanks

Name: Jeanne
Location: Indianapolis
How You Found this Site: By the grace of God :>)
Occupation: commercial insurance business
Favorite Utensil: my trusty old (sharp) french knife

Name:Kate
Location:London
How You Found The Site: Someone on Nigella Lawson forum said it was well worth checking out!
Occupation: Part time Sales Associate/ Part time Baker!
Favorite Utensil:My Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer

Name: Christine
Location: Honolulu Hawaii
How I found this site: Reading the New York Times while lying at the beach
Occupation: Lover of Life
Favorite Untensil: New Shun knife

Name: Tina
Location: Portland, OR (formerly Cobble Hill)
How I found this site: Came across the truffle tasting cartoon somehow- I love your site- it makes me miss Brooklyn!
Occupation: Lawyer
Favorite Untensil: definitely my garlic press

Name:duygu
Location:wilmington,nc
How You Found The Site:link on some blog i dont remember
Occupation:mathematician
Favorite Utensil:Measuring Spoons

Name: elisabeth
Location: boston
How You Found The Site: reading your delicious book, the Amateur Gourmet
Occupation: far too depressing to go share
Favorite Utensil: the spatula that came with a rice cooker..simply amazing and truly versatile

Name: Ido
Location: NYC
How You Found The Site:Looked for Mushroom Soup recipe, found the amazing post about the Balthazar cook book soup
Occupation: I-Banker
Favorite Utensil: my kid's Dora the explorer set

Name: Ido
Location: NYC
How You Found The Site:Looked for Mushroom Soup recipe, found the amazing post about the Balthazar cook book soup
Occupation: I-Banker
Favorite Utensil: my kid's Dora the explorer set

Name: Ido
Location: NYC
How You Found The Site:Looked for Mushroom Soup recipe, found the amazing post about the Balthazar cook book soup
Occupation: I-Banker
Favorite Utensil: my kid's Dora the explorer set

Name: Ido
Location: NYC
How You Found The Site:Looked for Mushroom Soup recipe, found the amazing post about the Balthazar cook book soup
Occupation: I-Banker
Favorite Utensil: my kid's Dora the explorer set

Name: sib
Location: england
How I found this site: from some other food blogger's link. the name caught my eye.
Occupation: economist
Favorite Untensil: wok

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