Name: rhiamom

Location: Thailand

Age: 54

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, peanut butter, bread, yogurt, eggs

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, tofu, bittergourd, jackfruit, durian

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 or 3 years

How Did You Get Here?: my daughter

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chicken stir-fry with garlic, asparagus and shiitake mushrooms, seasoned with black pepper and oyster sauce.

Judith

Italy

old enough

yes, please

Pork, pecorino, Parmigiano Reggiano, eggs, flour

Most intestines and glands, octopus,eel, rabbit, frog

Ummm, long enough to not remember

A reference on another chef’s blog

Diet: lean pork, broccoli, water

Name: Jason Sholar

Location: Taylor, MI (Detroit area)

Age: 26

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Gnocchi, Schaffer Burger Chocolate, Risotto, Chicken & Dessert!!!

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Brussel Sprouts, Rare Meat, Seafood, Peas & I don’t know…

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2.5+ years

How Did You Get Here?: General food blog surfing through Google. Once I found it, I could not leave it.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Probably junk food, as I’m going bowling after work. No matter what I’m sure the bar will be included. :-)

Name: Marsh Hanson

Location: NYC

Age: 37

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Dark Chocolate, Cheddar Cheese, a killer Ranch Dressing, lobster, eggs benny

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Sauerkraut, truffles (I know…), Curry, Raisins (of any date, fig, etc.)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: half a year

How Did You Get Here?: linked

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: usually, whatever CooksIllustrated’s daily recipe is.

Name: Devlyn

Location: Currently Boise, Idaho

Age: 27

Sex: F

5 Foods not w/out: sushi, sushi, mango, sushi, and sushi

5 Foods w/: Peas, spaghetti squash, pork products, lobster, and cauliflower

Reading: A few years? Just came back from a too-long haitus.

Found: via Google

Dinner: Teriyaki salmon with broccoli and japanese rice. Maybe some miso soup.

Name: Mark

Location: N KY

Age: 46

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

BBQ Ribs

Chili

Steak

Beef stroganoff

Philly cheesesteak sandwich

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Brussels Sprouts

Sauerkraut

Goetta

Bad Chili

bad BBQ

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Cpl months

How Did You Get Here?: Not a clue

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: It’s Wed so it must be Taco’s

Name:Lisa

Location: Southern Wisconsin

Age: 47

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pasta, Chocolate, Lemons, Chicken, Any kind of Curry

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Cooked carrots, liver, custards, canned vegtables, muskmelon

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a year and a half or so

How Did You Get Here?: some cooking blog link somewhere?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Leftover Thai chicken curry w/ rice

Beryl

Los Angeles

33

F

5 Foods not w/out: chocolate, coffee, fresh berries, sushi, my spaghetti with meat sauce

5 Foods w/: cauliflower, herring, arugula, anchovies, avocado

Reading: 6 months

Found: zuccini & chocolate

Dinner: chicken parmesan

Name: Trudy

Location: NYC

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Risotto, seafood, avocado, peaches, chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: refried beans, olives, marzipan, honeybaked ham

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since before you moved to NYC, how long ago was that?

How Did You Get Here?: can’t even remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: trout with macadamias, serrano, and green beans from Rick Bayless’ Mexican Everyday

Name: Spike

Location: Hong Kong

Age: 52

Sex: As often as possible (male, obviously)

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, steak, all seafood (but especially sashimi and shellfish), pasta, pizza

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

eggs, stinky tofu, liver, all canned fruit and veggies, anything my mother cooks

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: at least six months, maybe a year?

How Did You Get Here?: Probably it was a link from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: yikes! the worst day to answer this question. the free buffet at Laguna Bar, which consisted of tiny hot dogs and frozen mini spring rolls – but it was free!

Name: Kate H

Location: MD

Age:28

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Cheetos, Pad Thai, Steamed Shrimp, Steak and Bleu cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, lima beans, bell peppers, anything with ameretto flavoring and ….

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since the janet jackson cup cakes post

How Did You Get Here?: linked by a site that had an article on the janet jackson cup cakes

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: venison tenderloin ( if my hubbie remembers to thaw it out), broccoli and mashed taters

Name: Jonathan

Location: rural Kentucky

Age: 31

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bread, garlic, salsa, fresh garden tomatoes, beer

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mayonnaise, mushrooms, tofu, caramel, bell peppers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3-4 months

How Did You Get Here?: food blog surfing from Google

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Homemade pasta with marinara and pesto (jarred pesto, unfortunately–can’t find enough basil around here this time of year) with roasted green beans.

Name: Rob

Location: Oklahoma

Age: 38

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

sicilian red sauce, san francisco sourdough, fried chicken, oatmeal cookies, tabouli

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

cheese, califlower, mushrooms, caviar, bananas

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: I think from another foodie blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: a big ol’ salad w/homemade Lebanese dressing

Name: Lisa

Location: Urbana, IL

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, mama’s italian beef, cheese, avocado, & garbanzo beans

Five Foods You Can Live Without: pigs feet, cauliflower, fennel, salmon, & ham

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: several months

How Did You Get Here?: through Orangette’s blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: mama’s meatballs and penne

Michele

Chicago

25

Female

5 Loves: Ribs, Pasta, Sweet Potatoes, Brussel Sprouts, Soup

5 Yucks: Anchovies, Beans, Chili, Beef Strogenoff (sp?), Liver

Reading for a few months

Stumbled from a link from another blog, I suppose…

Mmmm… I don’t know yet, I’m going to Milwaukee for dinner!

Name: Mary

Location: Georgia and California

Age:46

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pasta, Wine, Tomatoes, Heavy Cream, Cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Liver, Lima Beans, Lentils, Lamb and Cabbage

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: Google

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Pork Scallopine, Garlic Bread, Coppolla Claret

What better time to delurk? Hi, Adam!

Name: RA

Location: PA

Age: twenties

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: (sorry, I’m not very gourmet)

- pasta

- mushrooms

- chicken noodle soup

- Swedish fish

- no-knead bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

- beets

- turnips

- sweet potatoes (I seem to have a root veggie thing going here)

- raisins

- French toast

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year?

How Did You Get Here?: a link from Smitten Kitchen

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Mmm, mac and cheese from the America’s Test Kitchen cookbook

Name: Andrea

Location: Florida

Age: 32

Sex: Only on a full moon

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Strawberries, chicken, tortillas, carrots and any kind of citrus

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Canned peas, asparagus, olives, processed cheese, non-diary creamer

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 or 4 months

How Did You Get Here?: Following links in other blogs

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Haven’t thought that far ahead.

Name: Becky

Location: Dallas, Texas

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate and Peanut Butter (counting them as one because that’s the only way to eat them), potatoes (mashed, baked, au gratin, raw, fried, etc…it doesn’t matter), cheese (cheddar, brie, feta, gorgonzola, etc), Mexican (or Tex-Mex more truthfully) and Chinese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, bell peppers, fish (excluding shellfish), brussel sprouts and tofu

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: several months now

How Did You Get Here?: probably a link from another blog but I don’t remember which one

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: leftovers

Name: Linda

Location: Nashville, TN

Age: 35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: hummus, pierogies, sour cream, garlic, olives

Five Foods You Can Live Without: haggis, eel, chocolate, canned vegs, clams

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2004

How Did You Get Here?: Today? Google Reader

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: cheese tortellini with grilled chicken and Alfredo sauce

Name: Judy

Location: Northern California

Age: Does it really matter?

Sex: Obviously female, see age comment

5 foods can’t live w/out: pasta, cheese, steak, strawberries, chocolate

5 foods can live w/out: brussel sprouts, tofu, blue cheese, mussels and really weak coffee

How long reading AG: Not long enough

How I found you: 101 Cookbooks

Whats for dinner tonight? Red Snapper, Asparagus and rice w/mushrooms

Name: Jenni

Location: Boulder, Colorado

Age: 28

Sex: Girl

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cured pork products, salmon, nectarines, yogurt, avacados

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peas, whiskey, liver, Smarties, oven-roasted turkey breast cold cuts

How Long Have You Been Reading AG?: 2.5 years

How Did You Get Here?: Friends with AG from the college days,

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: something gluten-free as i was diagnosed with Celiac Disease a few weeks ago– makes eating significantly less fun :(

Name: Lou

Location: Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico

Age: 52

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Pasta

Bacalaitos

Alcapurrias

chicken soup

bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

candy

soft drinks

organ meats

pop tarts

frozen bagels

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: google

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Name:Lina

Location:New Haven,CT

Age:46

Sex:Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Nutella,Cheese,Pate,Broccoli rabe,butter

Five Foods You Can Live Without:Chicken soup,peanut butter,pickles,liver,mustard

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 yr

How Did You Get Here?:Orangette’s blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Rabe with turkey sausage & pasta.

Name:Shane

Location:Vancouver, WA

Age:36

Sex:M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Wasabe, Chocolate, Sesame Oil, Cheese, White Tea

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Tomatoes, Sea Urchins, Okra, Bananas, Grape Leaves

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Several Months

How Did You Get Here?: I put a URL in the location bar and hit enter.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Undetermined. I and my family are sick. Possibly chicken, rice and cauliflower. Simple, and safe.

Name: Chanelle

Location: Arizona

Age: 25

Sex: f

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: french fries, raspberries, pasta, any dish with lemon(sweet OR savory) and DESSERT.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: red meat, seafood, mushrooms, mushrooms and mushrooms.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Almost two years, I think.

How Did You Get Here?: Some google search led me to your hilarious “failure” video, and into the world of food blogging. There was no going back from that point!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Probably Asian chicken noodle soup and baked potstickers.

Name: Brian

Location: Scottsdale, AZ

Age: 37

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: green salsa, green apples, brown rice, hummus, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: fondant, apple sauce, cole slaw, spring rolls, beef

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since the halcyon days of the Janet Jackson cupcakes.

How Did You Get Here?: Google Reader

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Hrm…good question. Maybe some orange chicken, steamed vegetables and brown rice.

Name: Wes Meltzer

Location: Orlando, FL

Age: 22

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Bread, chocolate, roast chicken, mashed potatoes, steamed asparagus

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Brussels sprouts, okra, tuna fish, pomegranates, zucchini

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since you were still in Atlanta — what, mid-2004?

How Did You Get Here?: Google search results, somehow

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Leftover roast chicken, rice, broccoli, maybe rice pudding if I have energy

Thanks, Adam!

Name: Rebecca Lando

Location: New York City

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Challah bread

Beets

Lamb

Chocolate

Cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Cilantro

Chicken

Refried beans

Tomato paste

Soda/Pop

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months-ish

How Did You Get Here?: from 101cookbooks.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Toasted sweet potato gnocchi with a little nutmeg, butter, and fresh-grated parmesan and an as-yet-to-be-determined salad.

Name:Amy

Location: Minneapolis

Age: 33

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Good Dark Chocolate, Fresh Summer Tomatoes, Bread, Salty Snacks, Cooked Mushrooms

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Beets, Fennel, Anise, Uni, Ginger, Raw Mushrooms

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 2 years I believe

How Did You Get Here?: I think Accidental Hedonist

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Pasta w/ homemade sauce and a salad.

Name: Adam Lederer

Location: Weimar, Germany

Age: 33

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: 1) Rice; 2) Tortillas; 3) Chiles; 4) Brownies; and 5) authentic Thüringen Bratwurst

Five Foods You Can Live Without: 1) coconut (in any form, even as flavoring); 2) marzapan; 3) American milk chocolate; 4) citrus fruit; and 5) fake “Thüringen Bratwurst”

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since the Cupcakes

How Did You Get Here?: I cannot remember.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Homemade Beef Chile — its on the stove simmering as I write… but it’s also 6 hours later in Germany.

Name: Sara

Location: Milan, Italy

Age: 32

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pasta, pizza, rice, chocolate, tomatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peas, parsnips, condensed milk, tofu, natto

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 1 year, I think

How Did You Get Here?: I absolutely do not remember…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Leftover from today’s post Cheese Pies…

Name:

Location: NYC/Upstate NY

Age: 37

Sex: Girly

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Bahn Mi, real hot buttered popcorn, Thai Red Curry, good ramen, bacon

Five Foods You MUST Live Without: innards, eggplant, okra, broccoli rabe, all canned vegetables other than corn

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: more than several months but under a year

How Did You Get Here?: I truly can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: risotto with butternut squash, pancetta and peas.

Name: Trish

Location: Morristown, NJ

Age: 34

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

chocolate, gorgonzola, prosciutto, nova lox, yoghurt

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Tofu, broccoli rabe, corn, kidney beans, brown rice

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: At least 1.5 years

How Did You Get Here?: Link from another food blog. Don’t remember which one.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Turkey Legs in a red wine sauce.

Name: Rebecca

Location: Madison, WI

Age: 23

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Tomatoes, Basil, Pasta, Sushi, Peanut Butter

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Processed x 5

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: ~ 2 months

How Did You Get Here?: NYT

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Homemade Pizza!

Name:

Location: NYC/Upstate NY

Age: 37

Sex: Girly

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Bahn Mi, real hot buttered popcorn, Thai Red Curry, good ramen, bacon

Five Foods You MUST Live Without: innards, eggplant, okra, broccoli rabe, all canned vegetables other than corn

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: more than several months but under a year

How Did You Get Here?: I truly can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: risotto with butternut squash, pancetta and peas.

Name: Summer

Location: Austin, TX

Age:35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, chicken breasts, bananas, Diet Dr Pepper (not food, but still), and pizza

Five Foods You Can Live Without: onions, green bell peppers, liver, curry and cabbage

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: maybe a month now

How Did You Get Here?: google reader

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: pizza twists with marinara for dipping

Name: Dave

Location: Seattle, WA

Age: 25

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, beef, beer, chicken, seafood

Food Foods You Can Live Without: onions, liver, brussel sprouts, mayonnaise, beets

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 Months or so.

How Did You Get Here? I think a link from another blog. I seem to recall something about food porn?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Probably nothing (Ash Wednesday fast). If I cave, it’s going to be blue cheese bacon burgers and green beans.

Name: Christine

Location: Houston, TX

Age: 35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Cheese, bread, chocolate, sushi, butter

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chicken thighs, watermelon, processed cheese, miracle Whip, Vienna sausages

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2+ years

How Did You Get Here?: the famous cupcakes! (miss Jackson’s)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Osso Buco with milanese risotto, David L.’s dulce leche brownies

Name: Lisa

Location: Sunny Columbus, Ohio

Age: ageless

Sex: Girl

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Coffee, pasta, pork products, Italian canned tuna, cruciferous vegetables

Five Foods You Can Live Without: green beans, sea cucumbers, chicken breast, fast food, brown rice (i know it’s good for me)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 2 yeears

How Did You Get Here?: I think KipLog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: a bento box full of fruit and vegetables. Mmm mmm.

Name: Rebecca Hartong

Location: Fairfax, VA

Age: 50

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: potatoes in any form, spinach samosas, plain yogurt, really good bread, good red wine. Hey, it’s food to me.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: meat, meat, meat, meat, and meat.

How Did You Get Here?: Google Reader

What’s For Dinner Tonight? Fried Rice

Name: Sarah

Location: Sarnia, Ontario

Age: 27

Sex: f

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, chinese food, chocolate, salmon, fresh bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without: tomatoes, liver, hot dogs (anything processed)…That’s about it…

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A couple of months

How Did You Get Here?: Can’t remember, from another blog I guess

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Last night we had chicken stew – it’s always better the next day! With some nice fresh crusty bread.

Name: Vickie

Location: Wash DC

Age: old enough

Sex: f

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: meat, sushi, chips, chicken, stock

Five Foods You Can Live Without: bittermelon is the only thing I can think of

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: nearly a year

How Did You Get Here?: have no idea, though I know the first post I read was about Mario’s roasted chicken

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: maybe leftovers, maybe spaghetti bolognese if my son lets me cook

Name: Stephanie

Location: Brooklyn

Age: 30

Gender: female

Five Foods I Can’t Live Without, terribly general edition: sushi, pasta, cheese, soup, bitter greens

Five Foods I Can Live Without: green peppers, muffins, mild fish, eggplant, millet

How long/how I got here: honestly can’t remember. It’s been a while.

What’s for dinner tonight? $1 oysters and 2-for-1 wine at Jolie.

Name: Lisa

Location: Connecticut

Age: 38

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:chocolate, olive oil, cheese, bread, and any vegetable

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beef, pork, fast food, processed cheese ‘food’, anything served at the Olive Garden

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about six months

How Did You Get Here?: Epicurious

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tilapia w/chile lime butter, brown rice, green beans

Name: Lisa

Location: Connecticut

Age: 38

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:chocolate, olive oil, cheese, bread, and any vegetable

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beef, pork, fast food, processed cheese ‘food’, anything served at the Olive Garden

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about six months

How Did You Get Here?: Epicurious

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tilapia w/chile lime butter, brown rice, green beans

Name:

Location: Brooklyn

Age: 23

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Mochi Ice Cream Balls, Lasagna, Fresh Crusty Bread, Mushy Peas, Roma Tomatoes (with Basil)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Meatloaf, Cheez Whiz, donuts, bananas (I know… it’s a texture thing), eggplant (see above)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 4 months

How Did You Get Here?: Boredom at work

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Fettucine Alfredo, Bread, Wine, Cranberry & Walnut salad

Name: Sarah

Location: MD

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, bagels, sushi, green curry, guacamole

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beef, shellfish (in fact, I *have* to live without these), organ meat, American cheese slices, tuna casserole

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: pre nipple cupcakes

How Did You Get Here?: via Kinja or Bloglines

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Spaghetti squash with tomato sauce, grilled cheese with aged cheddar

Name: Erin

Location: NYC

Age: n/a

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Black Beans

Peanut Butter

Coffee in the morning

Wine

Hummus

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Cheese

Hot dogs

canned tuna

Any and all fast food

asparagus

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a little over a year

How Did You Get Here?: i can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: depends, we are doing our taxes, so if we get a nice refund somewhere fun for a cocktail and delicious dinner and if we don’t, we will go to the gym and have left overs

Name: Erin

Location: NYC

Age: n/a

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Black Beans

Peanut Butter

Coffee in the morning

Wine

Hummus

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Cheese

Hot dogs

canned tuna

Any and all fast food

asparagus

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a little over a year

How Did You Get Here?: i can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: depends, we are doing our taxes, so if we get a nice refund somewhere fun for a cocktail and delicious dinner and if we don’t, we will go to the gym and have left overs

Name:Michelle

Location:Midwest

Age:35

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Fruit, Sushi, Chocolate, Pasta, Cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without:Bell peppers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: almost since you started

How Did You Get Here?: followed a link – I don’t remember from where though

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Not planned – either pasta and salad or just salad.

Name: Laurie

Location: Houston, TX

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Indian, Mexican, Lebanese, Sushi, Italian

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Bananas, Anything in the raisin family, Menudo (tripe ewwwww), I am sure there are two others….

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2yrs

How Did You Get Here?: A link

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Veggie Lasagna and Salad

Name: Josh

Location: Harrisonburg, VA (Rural Shenandoah Valley)

Age: 28

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Bread, Butter, Cheese, Chocolate, Meat

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Brussel Sprouts, Lima Beans, Oysters, Radishes, Turnips

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since Atlanta.

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t remember.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Something frozen and boring (it’s the middle of the busy work week).

Name: Marilyn

Location: Long Island

Age: Wish I was 21, but actually 51

Sex: F

Five Foods I can’t live without: Bagels,

pasta, sushi, chicken, any kind of cheese

Five Foods I can live without: pork, brown rice, lima beans,non-dairy creamers,MacDonalds

How long have I been reading: 2+ years

How did I get here: Don’t remember- a link from somewhere

Whats for dinner tonight: Swordfish, asparagus,angel hair pasta

Name Scott

Location MA

Age 23

Sex M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without bread, beets, balsamic vinegar, brussels sprouts (roast!), olive oil

Five Foods You Can Live Without zucchini, shrimp, pecorino cheese, saffron, mint jelly

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet? Since the Janet Jackson cupcake on CNN (3+ years?!)

How Did You Get Here? CNN

What’s For Dinner Tonight? leftover roast chicken, cold roasted root veg, green salad with balsamic-cider vinnegrette

Name: Kimberley Slobodian

Location: Vancouver, BC

Age: 35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, pasta, bread, red wine, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: offal, injera, processed foods, fermented bamboo shoots, deep-fried insects

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 8 months

How Did You Get Here?: link love

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: A re-creation of Chipotle’s barbacoa burrito

Name: Brynjar

Location: Iceland

Age: 25

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: At the moment i´m thinking Tuna salad, bread, skyr (icelandic dairy product), fish, water

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Traditional icelandic Þorramatur! (read about it on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorramatur)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Getting close to two years, i think.

How Did You Get Here?: Can´t remember, a link from another site or by google search.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: stir-fried something.

Name: Anne-Jet

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, sausages (how do you even spell that in English?), manchego cheese with quince jelly, dutch applepie, grilled paprika’s

Five Foods You Can Live Without: stewed pears, oxtail soup, walnuts in a hot desert, grapefruits, tasteless cheese

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:

about a year now

How Did You Get Here?: through David Lebowitzes site

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: pork filet wrapped in dry cured ham in a mustard sauce

name: karen

location: austin, texas

age: 29

sex: lady

five foods you can’t live without:

cheese, strong black tea, golden bowl from the grit in athens, achiote, beans of all kinds.

five foods you can live without:

meat, lemons, regular green peas, pickles, mustard.

how long have you been reading amateur gourmet? well, i’ve been subscribed to the rss feed since november 2004. yikes!

how did you get here? it’s been too long to remember, i think.

what’s for dinner tonight? i’m not sure yet. maybe tacos.

Name: Amy

Location: Virginia

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: popcorn, mushroom and cheese tortellini, red wine, yogurt, apples

Five Foods You Can Live Without: pretzels, radishes, vending machine food, diet soda, pea soup

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since last summer. 7 months maybe?

How Did You Get Here?: A link off someone else’s blog, I imagine.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: honey- and spice-glazed pork chops and salad. I’m hungry!

Name: The Guilty Carnivore

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Location: Portland, OR

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Age: Somewhere between post-pube and pre-menopause

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Sex: Not often enough

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Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Salt, MSG, pepper, ramen, tacos

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Five Foods You Can Live Without: Brains, bagels, foie gras, stupid-ass sushi rolls named after states or municipalities, tripe

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How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Longer than the word “Intertubes” was coined, shorter than the time from when our country to awoke from its post-911 wargasm.

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How Did You Get Here?: Quantum Molecular Hyper-Transportation (aka QMHT)

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What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tacos, or ramen, or rigatoni with tomato sauce and nicoise olives, or leftover tofu-and-sweet-potato-curry, or 5 cage free eggs fried in Maggi

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Name: Erin

Location: Missouri

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: dark chocolate, fresh fruit, pasta, tomatoes, and ice cream

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beef, American cheese, mayo, jello, and grits

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a long time! I can’t even remember when I started…very helpful of me (ha), but I’ve enjoyed every minute

How Did You Get Here?: probably another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade mac and cheese with broccoli

Name: Amy

Location: Sacramento, CA

Age: 30.5

Sex: Feminine

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: pizza, fish (raw, cooked, whatever), red wine and balsamic vinaigrette, berries, chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: natto, unripe fruit, pink lemonade, super fatty meat, cake

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: newbie – just started a month ago

How Did You Get Here?: linked through from another food blog, I expect

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: pasta with butter, arugula, pecornio, and a ton of freshly ground pepper, a green salad, some kind of light and fruity dessert

Name: Lexie

Location: NYC

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: thai red curry, pho bo, banh mi, pesto, cheese!

Five Foods You Can Live Without: pork, cottage cheese, funyins (sp?), lay’s jamon chips (in spain), raisins

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a year

How Did You Get Here?: Probably through Ed Levine’s old site

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Charles’s Southern Fried Chicken buffet baby!!!

Name: tara

Location: sf

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

cheese

greens

red meat

bread

fresh herbs

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

fish

seafood

eggs

beets

liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: no clue

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: pizza

Name: Lis

Location: iowa

Age: 43

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, sourdough bread, eggs, red wine, milk

Five Foods You Can Live Without: lamb, anchovies, spam, fake cheese, nonfat milk

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2+ years

How Did You Get Here?: kiplog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: (hmm, I should have waited for another nite to post this!) tatertot casserole

Name: Meryl

Location: Atlanta

Age: 25

Sex: F

5 you can’t live without: any & all cheeses, olive oil, fresh seafood, hamburgers with bbq sauce and ranch dressing, greek yogurt.

5 you can live without: anything processed, meats pumped full of antibiotics and hormones. That’s it.

How long have you been reading: about six months or so

How did you get here: link from another blog – maybe bruni digest?

What’s for dinner tonight: going to a friend’s house – hopefully something delicious!

Name: Angelhair

Location: Portland, OR

Age: 39

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

cheese

bread

pasta

bourbon

beer

Five Foods You Can Live Without: canned veggies (except tomatoes)

over-processed anything

coffee

mass market beer

cream soups

questionably textured cuts of meat (i.e.tripe)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:

quite a while

How Did You Get Here?: Do not recall

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: fish tacos and beer

Name: Jaime

Location: Philadelphia

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Loaded pizza, the vegan chocolate cupcakes from Whole Foods, roasted artichoke hearts, hamburgers with bleu cheese and sauteed mushrooms, green and red peppers.

Five Foods You CAN Live Without: Tripe, haggis, anything from fast food restaurants, brussels sprouts, Marmite.

How long have I been reading: A long time, since right around the time of the Janet Jackson cupcake post!

How did I get here: From Chocolate & Zucchini, the first foodblog I ever found.

What’s for dinner: Since it’s Ash Wednesday, probably just some sliced raw green peppers.

Name: Kevin

Location: Los Angeles

Age: 37

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Beef…beautiful beef! , potatoes (any kind), chocolate, parmesean cheese, apples, red wine

Five Foods You Can Live Without: eggs, mayo, most fish, beans, organ meats

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: +/- a year

How Did You Get Here?: http://www.RentaBoy.com (KIDDING!!!)I don’t recall

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Leftover pork braised in grapes and balsamic (Oh God it was fantastic!)

Thanks!

You are most certainly welcome

Name: Joe

Location: Madison, WI

Age: 32

Sex: Yes, please (Male)

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Parmaggiano Reggiano, Butter, Broccoli, Tomatoes, Good Steak

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Anything from Taco Bell, flavored coffees, soda, frozen dinners, low-fat anything

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet: Today: 5 minutes, In General: ~ 2 years

How Did You Get Here: My mom met my dad 37 years ago…

What’s for dinner tonight: Salade Nicoise or Chicken Marsala

Name: Meg

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Age: 53

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Spaghetti, grits, bacon, cornbread, butter

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Liver, chocolate, chicken, white bread, tripe

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: less than 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: Don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Take-out salad (it’s Ash Wednesday and I leave from the office to go to church to lead the music)

Name: Sarah

Location: Cleveland, OH

Age: 30

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, pop-corn, fresh baked bread, steak, spaghetti

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

liver, kale, eggs, other organ meats, lentils

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: more than 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: linked from another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Indian spiced cheese fondue with home made naan and chutney, maybe some veggies too

Name: Johanna

Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Age: 24

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: goat cheese, apples, peanut butter, chocolate, cheeseburgers

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chicken, lamb, nutmeg, fresh pineapple, protein bars

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: May 2005

How Did You Get Here?: a friend I had in my apartment building recommended it to me.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: not sure yet! I’ll improvise.

Name: StephOnies

Location: San Jose, CA

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: All carby foods and meat.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: All foods that are good for you.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 months

How Did You Get Here?: I was bored at work one day and did a search for foodie blogs and found this. I’ve been hooked ever since.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Don’t hate me, but it’s probably going to be frozen food. This foodie gets tired after work.

Name: Kitty

Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn

Age: 33

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate covered pretzels, Good french fries, fresh salsa, avocado, pasta

Five Foods You Can Live Without: cottage cheese, canned fruit, blue cheese, liver, pickled herring

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since November 2006

How Did You Get Here?: Through another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: leftover chicken enchiladas w/ roasted tomatillo salsa!

Name: Jennifer

Location: Holyoke, MA

Age:36

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Truffle oil, dim sum, granny smith apples, sweet potatoes and red beans.

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Bananas, anything Indian, commercial chocolate, flan and broccoli stalks.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: Valley Victuals

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vietnamese at the Bamboo House in Springfield, MA, if I don’t get carjacked.

Name:Dee

Location:Toronto

Age:33

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

pasta, rice, tomatoes, garlic, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

vanilla ice cream, ham, miracle whip, grapefruit, golden italian dressing

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 5 minutes

How Did You Get Here?: googling polenta

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: polenta

Name: Claire Walter

Location: Boulder, CO

Age: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Good crusty bread, salmon, ripe tomatoes, dark chocolate, pssta

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Organ meats (tho’ I just had some good sweetbreads), shredded coconut, fast-food burgers, chicken-fried steak, grits.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 4 months +/-

How Did You Get Here?: Link from http://culinary-colorado.blogspot.com (my blog). Want to link back?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Moroccan chicken, couscous, salad.

Spencer

Kingstree, SC

42-M

Pizza, Coldcuts, Donuts, Ice Cream, Coke

Liver, tofu, vegemite, soy milk, coffee

8 months

surfing for food blogs

It depends if my wife is well enough to eat. If well Chili con Carne, If not the kids will eat Fruit Loops and Milk and I’ll have a shaved ham and Provolone sandwich with bread and butter pickles.

*Location: Tampa, FL

*Age: 24

*Sex: yes, please. I mean, female

*Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Eggs, french fries, any type of Italian food, olive oil

*Five Foods You Can Live Without: beets, hog maws, pig’s feet, overprocessed sweet vending machine confections, soda

*How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a few months

*How Did You Get Here?: Link via the Paupered Chef

*What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chicken, asparagus, yellow bell pepper stir-fry with rice.

Name: Cynthia

Location: Northern California

Age: 50

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Beef, Mayonnaise, tortillas, avocados, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, octopus, raw eggs, raw meat, kidney beans

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a few months

How Did You Get Here?: I was looking for a recipe for Zuni Cafe roast chicken

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: carnitas tacos, beans, rice etc.

Name: Sara

Location: Knoxville, TN

Age: 25

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Guacamole, citrus fruits, sweet potatoes, peanut butter, brussel sprouts

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Apples (allergic), beets, liver, anything with rosemary, white rice

How Long Have You Been Reading AG? About 9 months

How Did You Get Here? Google and research

What’s For Dinner Tonight? Too soon to tell.

Name:Jim

Location:Corvallis, Oregon

Age:52

Sex:M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Pacific Snapper,spinach,garlic,mustard,mushrooms

Five Foods You Can Live Without:beets,rhubarb,soda,cereal,liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:over a year

How Did You Get Here?:google looking for recipes

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Red pepper pesto fettucini with shrimp.

Name: Dani

Location: Baltimore, MD

Age: 31

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: spicy tuna sushi, chicken-fried steak, pasta carbonara, pho soup and risoles (an Indonesian snack made with a crepe-like shell and filled with a creamy chicken and vegetable mixture)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peanut butter, cheesecake, Whopper malt balls, tiramisu, grapes (as you can tell-I’ve got more of a savory flair than a sweet one)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 months

How Did You Get Here?: Linked to your site from another food site

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Salmon cake on potato bread, served with a side of crab-flavored chips.

Name:

Name: Madeline aka/The Gourmet Peasant

Location: Brooklyn

Age:30

Sex:Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Dark Chocolate, coffee, soup, fage yogurt, wine (thats a food, right?)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Sushi, fast food, potatoes, ranch dressing, hollandaise sauce

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About six months now. I love your little films!

How Did You Get Here?:Once I started my own food blog(http://gourmetpeasnat.blogspot.com) I started reading others. Had no idea there were so many.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I am having drinks at Cocotte Bar – on 3rd right off of 5th ave – will probably get some food there. If not, I’ve got some quiche in the fridge.

Name:Plume

Location:

Age: 32

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:sushi, soy milk, french fries, noodles, brocoli

Five Foods You Can Live Without: milk, eggs, meat, mussels, flower flavored things

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: more than a year

How Did You Get Here?: from another blog I guess

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: stir-fry noodles with vegetables ans shiitake.

Name: Pam

Location: Atlanta, GA

Age: 39

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pad Thai, cheese, avocados, bacon, sourdough

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Milk, fish roe, chitlins, soda, margarine

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Close to 1 yr

How Did You Get Here?: From cityrag, I think

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Pizza & American Idol

Name: Kathy

Location: Baltimore

Age: 41

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, yogurt, shrimp, cilantro, ice cream

Five Foods You Can Live Without: lima beans, calves liver, green bell peppers, lentils, octopus

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Slightly over a year

How Did You Get Here?:Aliens

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: flank steak, Soba noodles with pesto, broccoli

Name: Carolyn

Location: Brooklyn

Age: 26

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: home made bread, butter, cheese, bananas, french fries

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Fast Food, scallops, chopped liver, cheesecake, marmite,

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: half a year

How Did You Get Here?: from another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vietnamese sandwiches from Hancos!

Name:Sydney

Location: London

Age:35

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: steak, soft corn tortillas, fresh greens with lemon, french fries, chocolate milkshakes. Is a martini olive a food, if it’s in a martini?

Five Foods You Can Live Without: marmite, sliced white bread, haggis, bland cheese, bananas

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: probably another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight? pancetta-wrapped cod, french beans (from Marks and Spencers, I’m afraid.. but you fry the cod yourself!)

Name: Aimee

Location: Atlanta

Age: 26

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: all cheese, tortillas, black beans, spinach, garlic

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mayonnaise, broccoli, Chinese food, sugary stuff, pork

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3+ years but very sporadically since your move to NYC

How Did You Get Here?: AJC I think?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chicken tacos.

Name: Jeff Fortin

Location: Waukesha, WI

Age: 33

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Steak (all forms….steak tacos, steak frites, ribeye, etc), sushi, salmon, chicken wings, avocados

Five Foods You Can Live Without: califlower, corned beef hash, tripe, cooked carrots, canned vegetables

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: At least 2 years, likely more

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t even remember.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Orange peel beef…I think.

Name: Josh

Location: Manhattan

Age: 32

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Any meat but goat, sushi, cheese, butter and wine (I guess that’s not technically a food, but I can’t live without it)

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Celery (it’s in virtually everything and I detest everything about it), celeriac, celery seeds, celery salt and licorice

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:

Approx. six months

How Did You Get Here?:

Link from eater.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Tapas at a wine bar

Name: Lauren

Location: Bay Area, CA

Age: 16

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Red Bell Peppers, spices such as curry and saffron, parmesan cheese, milk, and berry pies.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chinese dessert soup, seafood gumbo, cream sauces, sugar-free ice cream, and leeks.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a month

How Did You Get Here?: Through another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Leftover vietnamese food and carrot cake.

Name: tulip

Location: Atlanta, GA

Age: 36

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: potatoes, chocolate, tomatoes, pasta, wine (not a food technically but there it is.)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: hm. This is a tough one. Super hot peppers, green bell peppers, lemon grass, cilantro, tamarind. All things that I am just not really into. I do actually like them at times and in the right dish.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since you were here in ATL attending law school.

How Did You Get Here?: I think from a link at egullet, back in the day.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vietnamese chicken & rice soup.

Name: Aude

Location:Paris, France not Texas

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: tea, olive oil, basil, bread, goat cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: organ meats, blood sausage, rabbit, Lipton tea, corn starch

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: more than a year I guess

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t really remember, maybe from Chocolate & zucchini

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: wheat spaghetti with homemade pesto, then sheep’s milk cheese with hot chile peper jelly, olive oil & kumquat cake baked this afternoon; hum that was good actually

Name: Charise

Location: Columbus, OH

Age: 23

Sex: Female

Five foods can’t live without: crusty loaves of bread, most cheeses, pasta, chickpeas, sour cream

Five food can live without: most seafood, coconut flakes, nuts in my food/dessert (plain by the handful is fine), any mushy cooked veggies (i.e., carrots, lima beans, etc.), the strange parts of animals (tongue, brain, intestines, etc.)

How long? 6 months-ish

How get here? a link from another food blog, don’t remember now.

dinner tonight? out for bf’s birthday, but last night was moroccan chicken stew with couscous

Name: Anne

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Age: 34

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: onions of any kind, criossants, sushi, cheese, flour tortillas

Five Foods You Can Live Without: olives, natto, licorice, fennel, star anise

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: via the food blogging universe

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: BBQ’d chicken breasts, black bean & corn salad and LOST.

Name:Jeff

Location: Kitchener, ON

Age:33

Sex:M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Pizza

Steak

Garlic

Caesar Salad

Chicken and Pork Chop with lemongrass

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

liver

hazelnuts/brazil nuts

Indian curry

veggie sandwich meats

horseradish

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:8 months

How Did You Get Here?: can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: perogies with corn

Name: meera

Location: england

Age: 23

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, coffee, all manner of desserts, seafood, eggs

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver (kidneys, etc), over-cooked veg, pinto beans (and other pulses that take centuries to cook), beef, fish roe

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a couple of years

How Did You Get Here?: via another foodie blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: sweet chillie prawns with a mushroom, bean sprout and pepper stir fry, and poached pear with yogurt cake (see C&Z) for dessert.

Name: Mags

Location: CT

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Cheese

French Fries (ok, potatoes in general)

Filet Mignon

Fresh crusty bread

And I ashamed to say as a culinary arts student: Pizza

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Liver

Escargot

Salmon (Farm raised)

Chocolate (gasp!)

Goat Cheese

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A few months

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t remember, to be honest…another food blog?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Grilled cheese.

Name: Courtney

Location: Chicago, IL

Age: 26

Sex: Female

Can’t Live Without: Good chocolate, crusty bread, spinach, cheese, steak

Can Live Without: raw mushrooms, seafood, peas, bananas, lemon dessert

How long reading: about 1.5 years

I got here from another blog – I don’t remember which one.

I will be on a plane for dinner – so I’ll be packing a sandwich and a treat!

Name: Catherine

Location: NYC

Age: 35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: french fries, cheese, pork, leafy greens, olives

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beets, raisins, sauerkraut, yams, carrots

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6ish months

How Did You Get Here?: link from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: tacos

Name: Breadchick

Location: Cambridge, MA

Age: Old enough to know better but young enough to still get in trouble..Ok, 40ish

Sex: F

Five foods can’t live without:

Fois Grais, smelly French cheese, cream of wheat, scallops, bread (of course!)

Five foods can live without: eggplant, tripe, that gooey stuff I had in Mumbai, kidney pie, Kraft Mac and Cheese

How long? a year

How Get Here? My RSS reader (bloglines)

What’s for Dinner tonight: bouilabaisse on fresh linguine and the dinner boule I made last night

Name: Janet

Location: SF Bay Area

Age: 55

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bread, cheese, fresh fruits, chocolate, ice cream

Five Foods You Can Live Without: shellfish, sushi, liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 yr

How Did You Get Here?: David Lebovitz

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: leftover roast chicken

Name: Mei

Location: Hoboken, NJ

Age: 20

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: ice cream, belgium waffles, chocolate, mango, strawberries, garlic

Five Foods You Can Live Without: blue cheese, bananas, carrots, coconut shavings, bitter melon

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 week

How Did You Get Here?: Through another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Strawberry Shortcake and lentel soup

Name: Sarah

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Tonight for dinner: crackers

Name: Sarah

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Tonight for dinner: crackers

Name: Kat

Location: Philly

Age: 24

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Dill pickles, ice cream, General Tso’s Tofu, apples, and blueberries

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Headcheese, anything with sesame, anything from a box, and anything touched/endorsed by Rachael Ray (Or Sandra Lee)- not five but do I really care?

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since early last summer

How Did You Get Here?: don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight? Grouper, brown rice and fresh green beans!

Name: Amy

Location: Kansas City

Age: 27

Sex: Girl

Five foods you can’t live without: pancakes, rice vinegar, fish, all vegtables, ice cream in a waffle cone

Five foods you can live without: Liver, mayo, gin, circus peanuts, anything vegetarian made to try and pass as a meat or cheese product

How long have you been reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a year and a half

How did you get here?: Through the food blog WELL FED

What’s for dinner tonight?: roasted garlic on plain bagel chips, tuna steaks and asparagus

Name: E

Location: Washington, DC

Age: 15

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Parmigiano Reggiano, good bread, pasta, corn, salmon

Five Foods You Can Live Without: veal, mayonnaise, American cheese, cream cheese, anything processed

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1-2 months

How Did You Get Here?: another blog, I think

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

chickpea salad with lemon juice, olive oil, and parmigiano (or salmon with dill butter, plus rice and beans and snap peas, depending)

Name: jenik

Location: Prague, Czech Rep., Europe

Age: 28

Sex: F

5FICn´tLW: Mashed potatoes, custard, black coffee, cornichons and anything that has tomatoes

5FICLW: Overcooked rice, fish and seafood, offal, candy and babyfood

Tonight for dinner: Homemade pasta salad

Name: pan Cuketka

Location: Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

Age: 27

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: wine, olive oil, czech bread, butter, fruit

Five Foods You Can Live Without: meat, spicy food, tripes&offal, processed&premade food, sushi

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: by hole in a time-space continuum :)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: cauliflower cream with grilled parmiggiano white bread .)

(čau jeníku! :)

Name: Cindy

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Age: 26

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: home-made pesto, pastry, dark chocolate, mushrooms, a packet of chips from the vending machine on a slow afternoon at work

Five Foods You Can Live Without: meat, any five ways you like it

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: ~3 months

How Did You Get Here?: link from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: discovering a new restaurant in a suburb I’ve barely visited

Name: Liz

Location: NYC

Age: 24

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bread, cheese, tomatoes, avocado, swedish fish

Five Foods You Can Live Without: escargot, liver, chicken, kale, whole wheat pop tarts (seriously dad, what were you thinking?)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Maybe a year and a half

How Did You Get Here?: Google result on Iron Chef or Mario Batali or something

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Some sort of meyer lemon/arugula concotion. There’s meyer lemons at Trader Joe’s in NYC, go get some everyone!

Name: Jen

Location: Portland, OR

Age: 21

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: There are of course *way* too many favorites to choose the ultimate five, but these come to mind right now: Crispy-juicy super-succulent carnitas tacos, roasted veggies of almost any kind, cheese (glorious cheese!), dark chocolate, and seafood in general – but especially steamed crabs (I did spend the first 19 years of my life in Baltimore, MD).

Five Foods You Can Live Without: bananas, tofu, corn dogs, scrambled eggs, chicken sashimi.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Less than a year, but in that time, voraciously. Especially at work.

How Did You Get Here?: Zero recollection…probably a Google search or a link from another blog.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I’m bringing a roasted beet, fennel, and orange salad to a potluck-type dinner with a couple friends. I think the evening will also involve eggplant lasagna. And plenty of wine.

Name: subede

Location: East Hartford, CT

Age: 53

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, Garlic, Chicken, lemons, spinach

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, canned peas, white bread, margarine, tofu

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: I just started

How Did You Get Here?: a link on epicurious.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: mild black bean chili over toasted polenta rounds

Name: Stacey

Location: Vancouver, BC

Age: 41

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Indian curry, Thai curry, any pasta, chocolate, hot sauce

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Tripe, head cheese, peanuts, peanut butter, any junk food

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A few months

How Did You Get Here?: link from another blog site.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tuna casserole

Tracy

Chicago

36

f

Can’t Live Without: lemon, heavy cream, chicken, peppers & Gatorade(I know, I know)

Can Live Without: salmon, gluten, processed foods, raw onions & apples

How Long?: A couple of years

How Did You Get Here?: I have no idea

What’s For Dinner: Homemade pizza

Name: Londell

Location: Denver, CO

Age: 33

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: pasta, bacon, butter, bread of any kind, and potatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, pig parts/appendages, toungue, hmm, that’s it really.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Just today.

How Did You Get Here?: Google Reader

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Nohting I’m fasting, it’s Ash Wednesday.

Name: erica

Location: denver, co

Age: 28

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bacon, all cheeses, avocados, milk, mushrooms

Five Foods You Can Live Without: saurkraut, pickled ginger, baked beans, soggy bread, beef liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: see below

How Did You Get Here?: megnut (battle foie gras!)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: unless you’re coming to cook for me…cap’n crunch

Kitchenbeard

San Francisco, CA

Closer to 40 than 20

Man

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Eggs, butter, bread, chilis and peanut butter.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Kraft macaroni & cheese, cheesewhiz, anything Rachel Ray has touched, cake mix, and pork rinds.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a year.

How Did You Get Here?: Well first my parents met in 1960 and……

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Garlic oratmeal with chicken breasts mixed in mostl likely unless I get inspired and also manage to get a nap in.

Name: Melissa

Location: Urbana, IL

Age: 20

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: gouda, goat cheese, elk, carnitas, raspberries

Five Foods You Can Live Without: onions, Lay’s chips, collard greens, turnips, lima beans

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: hmm…some random link

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: dorm food :(

Name: Sarah

Location: Minneapolis

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Parmesan, Chocolate, Coffee, Pasta and Avocado

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Tofu and Sake

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A year?

How Did You Get Here?: Another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Lemony linguine with onions, jalapenos and romano! Mmmm….I’m hungry.

Name: Emily

Location: Durham, NC

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: dark chocolate, garlic, peaches, raspberries, fresh salsa

Five Foods You Can Live Without: sardines, chevre, steak, salt & vineagar potato chips, rabbit

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: leftover tuna casserole

Name: Melissa

Location: Greater Boston

Age: 31

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Blue cheese, potatoes, bread, pasta, avocados

Five Foods You Can Live Without: shrimp, lobster, coffee, salt & vinegar chips, swiss cheese

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: almost a year

How Did You Get Here?: from another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: butternut squash soup, rosemary & olive oil bread with butter, cup cakes

Name:zee

Location:London, England

Age:58

Sex:f

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Bread, wine, olive oil, cheese, tomatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without:Okra, chocolate, ready made salad dressings, low fat anything

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a few months

How Did You Get Here?: one link leads to another!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Cumberland sausge cassoulet

Name: Natalia

Location: Denver, CO

Age: 19

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: good bread, raspberries, gelato, good butter, and fresh mozzarella

Five Foods You Can Live Without: tofu, red meat, licorice, bean sprouts, and choux pastry

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year and a half

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t really remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Pizza?

Name: Christine

Location: CT

Age: 23

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: guacamole, dark chocolate, wine, cheese, chicken tikka masala

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peas, veal, scallops, beets, tofu

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: over 2 years I think

How Did You Get Here?: My friend Bright sent me

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Spicy black bean soup, homemade guacamole, and chick pea curry

Name: Fran

Location: Pearl City, Hawaii

Age: 40

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Ribeye Steaks, Rice, Sashimi, Raw Oysters & Chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: I can’t think of any food I dislike (and I’ve tried a lot of unusual things)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: almost two years

How Did You Get Here?: don’t remember, but it was from another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I have flank steak defrosting, I’ll probably stir-fry it with onions and tomatoes.

Name: Stacia

Location: Kansas

Age: 35

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: marinara sauce, choo chee pla (Thai red snapper), sashimi, filet mignon, chicken breast.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: cauliflower, brussel sprouts, turkey, Hershey’s milk chocolate, fruited bagels, eggs.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: just a couple weeks

How Did You Get Here?: from Too Many Chefs, I believe

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: cajun chicken (bone-in chicken in a spicy red sauce, with okra, celery, onion, and green pepper), over steamed rice.

Name: Nicole Marie

Location: Los Angeles

Age: twenty-three

Sex: feminine

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

1. butter

2. artichokes

3. crusty bread

4. waffles

5. asparagus

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

1. shrimp

2. bivalves (mussels, clams, oysters)

3. creamy salad dressings

4. steak (I much prefer other cuts of meats)

5. blue cheese

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since before its first birthday

How Did You Get Here?: can’t remember… maybe a link from a feature article?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: if all goes well, I’ll be dragging my boyfriend out for Japanese-slash-sushi!

Name: Jane

Location: Miami Beach, FL

Age: 36

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, Cheese, Bread, eggs, milk.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Tofu, hot dogs, candy (non-choc), yogurt, processed meats.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: cpl weeks

How Did You Get Here?: Chocolate & zucchini.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: nutella on croissant – sad, I know.

Amanda

Seattle, WA

late 20s

yes

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

-potatoes

-asian pear apples

-croissants

-coffee

-chinese broccoli

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

-cheetos

-prepackaged deli meat

-broccoli

-cooked carrots

-grapefruit

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: almost a year

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t remember; other food blogs I think.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Masala aloo (mashed potatoes with Indian spices), pooris (like fried rotis), and papad (like pappadum — wafers).

Name: Cathy

Location: New York, NY

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: almond butter, muffins, fruit, chinese water spinach, granola

Five Foods You Can Live Without: dairy, chocolate, steak, liver, orange juice

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: pretty much since the beginning

How Did You Get Here?: don’t remember anymore

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: mustard greens sandwich from Chinatown (recommend by you!)

Name: Corinne

Location: Ontario, Canada

Age: 21

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Oatmeal

Bread

Sweet Potatoes

Bananas

Apples

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Pizza

Cheese

Mayo/Ketchup/all condiments

Raw tomatoes

Pancakes

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 8 months

How Did You Get Here?: Random, probably from Slashfood

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Shrimp stirfry with tons of veggies

Vida (as in life, yes)

Mexico City

27

Female

With: cold milk, chocolate, lemon, chicken stock with rice, all kinds of beans.

Without: things that aren’t quite dead before you eat them (oysters and such), canned soup.

Started reading about a year ago, via google, I think.

Tonight’s dessert night: lemon pie, rompope-chocolate cake and, maybe, some fish fillets with tomato salad.

Name: Becky

Location: England

Age: 22

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Rice, tea, yoghurt, broccoli, eggs

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Coleslaw, vinegar/vinegrette, pretty much anything pickled, offal

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Long time. 4 years-ish?

How Did You Get Here?: Looking for a cupcake recipe… and I found one;)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Oyakodon (chicken and egg rice bowl), courtesy of living and studying in Japan for a year.

Name: emily

Location: michigan

Age: nineteen

Sex: female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: baguettes, fresh fruit, feta cheese, chicken, and vanilla yogurt.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peas, asperagus, any sort of bean, cottage cheese, and eggs that arn’t scrambled.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months or so, but i’ve read all the archives!

How Did You Get Here?: through another food blog, probably.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: popcorn and hot chocolate…i’m studying for a big psych test :-\

Name: Michelle

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Age: 27

Sex: F

5 foods that I can’t live w/out:

Chocolate, eggplant, pasta, cheese, garlic

5 foods I can live w/out:

Mushrooms, mayo, ham, chevre, veal

How long have I been reading?

On and off for the past few years.

How did I get here?

Not sure. It’s been a while. If I had to guess, I’d say a followed a link from another site.

What’s for dinner tonight?

Something in my freezer from Trader Joe’s. Pathetic I know, but it’s been a LONG day…

Name: Jodie

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Age: 19

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: I like to think everything I eat is necessary for my survival, but more specifically… animal fat, toast w/ butter and nutella (yes, both), mushrooms, garlic, uni (sea urchin) sushi

Name: Jodie

Location: Westchester County, NY

Age: 31

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

1. Filipino spaghetti,

2. cheese,

3. chocolate

4. peanut butter and jelly sandwich,

5. chicken

6. ketchup

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

1. avocado

2. olives

3. liver

4. okra

5. beef

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: several months

How Did You Get Here?: via chocolateandzucchini.com

Name: Jule

Location: Columbus, OH

Age: 26

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Steak, Potatoes, Garlic, Broccoli, Bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Most seafood, chicken liver, cauliflower, canned vegetables, Red Delicious Apples

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: I think google

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Glazed pork chops from Cooks Illustrated

Name: Kelly

Location: Cleveland suburb

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five foods that give me the will to live:

Steak

Stinky cheese

crusty bread

wine

chocolate

Five foods that make me question people and their tongues:

intestine meat

crappy coffee

blood sausage

salmon

bologna

How long have I been a reader?: 3 years

How did I get here? C&Z

Dinner tonight: Chicken a la king

Name: Nita

Location: San Jose, CA

Age: 53

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: red meat, olive oil, Memphis-style pulled pork BBQ, sushi, blue cheese salad dressing

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Texas beef ribs, green bell pepper, beef liver, Spam, food with too much mayo

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a dog’s year

How Did You Get Here?: haven’t a clue

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: grilled porterhouse steak cooked Florentine style, roasted asparagus, baked potato, bottle of cabernet sauvignon

Name: astrid

Location: brooklyn, ny/boston, ma

Age: 28

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

noodles

shiitake mushrooms

pizza

red wine

jiaozi

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

watermelon

celery

cottage cheese

root beer

bananas

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: can’t recall.. saw so many links to the site, had to check it out

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: chicken pot pie

Name: Dani

Location: NJ

Age: 31

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

mozzarella, chocolate, avocados,

apricot juice, filet mignon

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beef jerky, chef boy-ar-dee, bologna, spinach, brussel sprouts

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: several months

How Did You Get Here?: another food blog, not sure which one

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: whole wheat pasta with sauteed zucchini and eggplant

Name: Amy

Location: Williamsburg, VA

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: sushi, gourmet chocolates, Trader Joe’s basil salad dressing, mango with sticky rice, fresh basil rolls

Five Foods You Can Live Without: sausage, brussels sprouts, natto, milk with lactose, liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: this is my first visit!

How Did You Get Here?: http://www.roboppy.net/food/2007/02/death_by_momofuku.html#more

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Spinach salad topped with tandoori garlic chicken, spicy cashews, cucumber slices, green pepper, carrots, grapes and Trader Joe’s basil dressing + 2 sesame melba toast crackers + 1 gourmet chocolate

Will you actually read all the comments? :)

Name: Shelly

Location: Oakland, CA

Age: Ahem… 31.

Sex: Yes please. Oh sorry, I mean female.

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Dark chocolate, pasta, good cheese, really good rye bread, decent lox.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: artificial sweeteners, corn syrup, margarine (feh!), jarred mayonnaise and anything prepared with it, “low-fat” foods.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 2 years, on and off.

How Did You Get Here?: Probably from a link on someone else’s food blog.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I’ll be home so late I won’t feel like cooking. Probably homemade cornmeal spiked no-knead bread (baked it on Sunday) with Cyprus Grove cheese and some fresh vegetables.

Name: Kirsten

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Age: 26

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Mexican Food

Pho

Cake and anything chocolate

Sushi

Wine

The list could go on…

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Baked goods or desserts with walnuts in them

Tripe & most offal

Canned black olives

Shredded coconut (texture issue, like the flavor)

Can’t think of a 5th? I like almost everything

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 9 months

How Did You Get Here?: Link from another food blog – not sure which one

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Corn chowder

Teri

Sherman Oaks, California

44

female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Parmigiano Reggiano, red meat, garlic, pasta, cherry pie

Five Foods You Can Live Without: blue cheese, liver, tripe

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: I think it was a Google search

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: shrimp scampi, pasta, chopped salad.

Name:Dave

Location: North Idaho

Age:46

Sex:M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Mexican food, Ravioli, Veggie Burgers, Omelets and Potatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Red Meat, Pork, Overcooked Veggies, Soup and Stews

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 2 weeks

How Did You Get Here?: Google Reader

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Pasta and Veggie Sausage

Name: Tina

Location: New York, NY

Age: 21

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

- Desserts & Chocolate (if that’s considered food)

- Cheese (the good stuff, please)

- Artisanal bread

- Sushi

- Pork

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

- Liver (except foie gras)

- anything artificially sweetened, colored, and/or added chemical fillers (gross!)

- Margarine

- Shellfish (I’m allergic)

- McDonald’s (I haven’t touch that thing half my life)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 182 days and counting

How Did You Get Here?: From my friend’s food blog: roboppy.net/food

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Braised pork shoulder, steamed broccoli, and a bowl of udon in homemade chicken stock.

Name: Miss M

Location: New England US

Age: 22

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

avacados, most cheeses, fresh tender crunchy bread and butter, fresh fruit and veg- so many, can’t choose!, greek yogurt.. steak. wait, that’s 6. *sigh*

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

raw onions, chicken livers, green peppers,veal, twinkies. red delicious apples.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a few months

How Did You Get Here?: food blog surfing

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

two slices of mediterannean style pizza (feta, kalamata olives, artichoke and tomato) with a glass of 2005 Excelsior Cab Sauv (S. Africa). Thanks both to my professor- I’m a teaching assistant for a wines class at college and we had to correct exams tonight- hence free pizza! yum. And extra wine from the extra credit tasting. Huzzah! I love my job.

Name: Gaye

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Age: 34

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, ginger, steak, raspberries, potatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Cabbage, alfalfa, tripe, eel, really fatty anything

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: Link from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Beef stir fry

Name: Holly

Location: Montgomery, Alabama

Age: 23

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Tempeh, Apples, Garlic, Tomatoes, Spinach (although I briefly lived without it this fall, damn e. coli)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Onions, Meat, Dill, Avocados, Horseradish/Wasabi

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6ish months

How Did You Get Here?: Google

What’s For Dinner Tonight: Barbecued tempeh with roasted Roma tomatoes & balsamic glaze

Name: Carrie

Location: Atlanta, GA

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: apples, carrots, toast, chicken, nutella

Five Foods You Can Live Without: eggs, olives, seafood, cilantro, liver (they all make me ill)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since the very beginning

How Did You Get Here?: Realizing that all of the delicious baked goods that I was eating when we watched Sex and the City were being written about online…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: turkey sandwich and salad

Name: Emily

Location: NYC

Age: 24

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Raspberries, goat cheddar, nigella’s lamb and lentil stew, harira, black and white cookies

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chicken in all its permutations, dark chocolate, any type of fat free cheese, tea, grape jelly

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year and a half

How Did You Get Here?: looking for restaurant reviews upon my move to NYC

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: whole wheat pasta with chicken/fontina/spinach sausage and marcella hazan’s tomato sauce; salad with mustard vinaigrette

Name: Janelle

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Age: 20

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

a well prepared rare steak

Ben and Jerry’s Oatmeal Cookie icecream

strong coffee

very dark chocolate

really good sushi

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Oranges

American cheese

green peppers

diet soda

walnuts (I’m alergic)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 10 months or so

How Did You Get Here?: Linked through a forum post

What’s For Dinner Tonight: Mongolian barbecue from the little place down the block.

Name: Zeep

Location: Seattle

Age: Does anyone really still believe in time these days?

Sex: It’s a good thing, generally speaking.

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: mexican, american, asian, russian, you get the idea.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: I cannot live without food, although I must admit that mushrooms aren’t always agreeable to me. for shame.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 or 3 years now, and going strong. keep it coming AG!

How Did You Get Here?: Surfed on in. Janet Jackson cupcakes probably snared me initially…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade mac-n-cheese with grilled ribs… yummm.

B

Milwaukee

21

Female

Can’t: My mom’s Vietnamese food, French Fries, Gala Apples, peanut butter, cheese

Can: Shrimp, shrimp, shrimp, crab, rice porridge

I’ve been reading for a few months…got on here through Orangette.

For dinner: spaghetti with pesto and tuna

Name: Emily

Location: New Haven, CT

Age: 28

Gender: F

5 Foods I can’t Live Without: this question is too hard. but i’ll try: dark chocolate, red meat, fruits, maple syrup, bread/yogurt tie

5 Foods I can live Without: lobster, mussels, tacos, brussel sprouts, hamhocks

How Long Have I Been Reading: 4 months

How Did I Get Here? My friend Darlene

What’s for Dinner Tonight? chicken & veggie curry (curry sauce courtesy of Trader Joe’s)with brown rice

p.s. i love your songs and videos. (when i listen to them/watch them, i wish we could be friends). Field trip to New Haven, home of the worlds’ first hamburger?

Name:

Junglegirl

Location:

Hawaii

Age:

31

Sex:

goddess

Five foods I can’t live w/o:

Avocado, Kale, Lemon, Spirulina, fresh Coconuts

Five foods I can live w/o:

Meat, dairy, GMO’d foods, factory farmed foods, non-organic foods. In fact, the only way to live IS without these foods !

How Long a Reader:

About 6 months, since I got DSL, yippee!

How did I get here:

ChezPim’s list of blogs

What’s for dinner tonight:

Organic Kale chopped salad, organic Kabocha squash and quinoa. One of my favorite most satisfying meals!

Name: Maricris N.

Location: Philippines

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Chocolate, Vegetables, Fruits, Chicken, Seafoods

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Mayo, Vinegar, Red Meat, Cake, Ice cream

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:

3 months

How Did You Get Here?:

RSS feeds

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Uhmm.. dunno yet =P

Name: Eileen

Location: Silicon Boring, I mean Valley

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

GARLIC

pasta

cheese

mushrooms

spinach

(plus one drink: WINE.)

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

nori

shrimp

sushi

ham

blueberry pancakes wrapped around

sausage on a stick

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Something like two years? I don’t know.

How Did You Get Here?: from my own links page of links

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tonight is very hormonal, so it may just be gin. Also chocolate. Then at some point probably burritos.

you must have lots of time on your hands (or lots of insomnia) to slog through all these replies but here goes

Name: Mel

Location: suburbs outside Washington DC

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, lobster, steak, broccoli, summer squash

Five Foods You Can Live Without: asparagus, brie, liver in all its various forms, most beans, veal

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: I don’t know. almost a year maybe?

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t remember. I sort of wander on the internet and find myself places.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I had leftover spaghetti (with meat sauce), much to my Catholic family’s dismay.

Name: SR

Location: NYC

Age: 28

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate & Peanut Butter, Red Meat, German Beers, Honey Roasted Penuts & Cashews (Nuts for Nuts arts!), Cesar Salads

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Soft Drinks, Marzipan, Cilantro (why is it in everything!), Bread & Pasta

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1.5 years

How Did You Get Here?: No idea honestly

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: grilled chicken and shrimp w/ alfredo sauce

Name: Grace

Location: NYU

Age: 20

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: eggs, olives, chicken and vegetable ramen, grapefruits, watercress

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, thousand year eggs, pumpkin, chai, bananas

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since the Summer of 2005, when I started working in a bum workstudy job :)

How Did You Get Here?: a bookmark

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade dumplings and peas

Name: Dennis

Location: Seattle

Age: Only my Mom knows – she was there

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

pizza, wine, beer, cheese, bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Ducks Blood Soup, Kidneys, Tripe – most offal but I like liver.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a year

How Did You Get Here?: Link from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Clams & Fideo (Top Chef Recipe)

Name: Darcy

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Age: 22

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: garlic, greens, chocolate, tempeh/tofu, sweet potatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chicken, beef, red delicious apples, HFCS, partially hydrogenated stuff

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a mere few months!

How Did You Get Here?: epicurious

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: sleek (kale/bulgur/black eyed peas/onion/lemon)

Name: Christine Liu

Location: Boston, MA

Age: 24

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: pork, shrimp, hot peppers, chocolate, tomatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: raw cucumbers (but i love pickles!), liver, white chocolate, tasteless industrialised meat, flavorless industrialised produce

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a couple years!

How Did You Get Here?: from the sxsw bloggies

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: flank steak from new zealand paired with a totally improvised mushroom-redwine reduction (i thought of you when i made it!)

happy belated birthday, adam, and thanks for being one of the best bloggers around! xo

Name:Deanna

Location:Toronto

Age:25

Sex:

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:chocolate, cheese, pasta, greens, pizza

Five Foods You Can Live Without:soft drinks, cilantro, taco bell, pork rinds, offal/organs

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 and half yrs

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t remember how this started but it’s routine now!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: salad and nacho chips

Name: Matt

Location: Baltimore

Age: 21

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Peanut butter, pasta (especially alla carbonara), yogurt, mexican with lots of cilantro and lime, coffee

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Sundried tomatoes, vegemite (a food?), grapefruit, sweet-n-low, shrimp (allergic)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: Linked through the lovely Chocolate and Zucchini

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tofu with scallions from How to Cook Everything

Name: stephanie tanner

Location: los angeles

Age: 24

Sex: its fun, jk, F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, avocado, bread, pasta, fries

Five Foods You Can Live Without: ice cream, lox (im a bad jew), steak, chocolate, & green bell peppers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2.5 years

How Did You Get Here?: from another food blog but i cant remember which one!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade macaroni and cheese with mushrooms

Name: Sam

Location: Highlands Ranch, CO

Age: 36

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Grilled shrimp, lobster & butter, blueberries & homemade yogurt, corned beef, In-N-Out Burger.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Eggplant, brussels sprouts, Kraft mac & cheese, hot dogs w/ketchup, eel. (ok, I’ve never had eel.)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: When did Google Reader go live? 6 months sounds about right.

How Did You Get Here?: Google Reader had it as one of the feeds in their food section of RSS feeds.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Italian sausage w/zucchini, squash & onions & tomato sauce.

Name: Lisa

Location: Sacramento

Age: Old enough to be your mother

Sex: Not now, I have a headache

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Coffee, cheese, brussels sprouts, Beef, white peaches

Five Foods You Can Live Without: canned salmon, bleu cheese, milk, liver, lamb

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 4 months, but I’ve caught up on almost all the back-posts

How Did You Get Here?: googled “braised short ribs”

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: creamy polenta with tri-colored pepper pepperonata

Name: Kathleen

Location: California

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Pasta, Bread, Pizza dough, Cheese, Steak

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Chocolate, Pastries, Raw tomatoes, Lots of green veggies (asparagus, brussel sprouts), Potato chips and other junk foods

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Six months

How Did You Get Here?: Another food blog somewhere

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Hm. Mac and Cheese (homemade) leftovers, I guess.

Wow what timing… I was just thinking about the last one of these!

Name: Elise

Location: State College, PA (Penn State)

Age: 20

Sex: F

5 foods I need: asparagus, ripe tomatoes with mozzarella, good bread and butter, all fruit, brie, ginger

5 foods I can live without: cauliflower, mushrooms, olives, mealy apples, couldn’t think of anything else so I added one more I need!

Reading AG for: 2 years but just returned from a hiatus

How I got here: I honestly don’t remember at this point, probably linked to it from another food blog that I found by randomly googling

Dinner tonight: stir fry… wasn’t really very good so no need to elaborate

Name: Jenn

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Starburst jellybeans (Don’t know if they’re food, but I love them), tortilla chips, cheese (all kinds), almonds, salmon

Five Foods You Can Live Without: onions, garlic, raspberries, leeks, tamales

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since March 2005

How Did You Get Here?: I saw an article on food bloggers in the Los Angeles Daily News.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Yaki tacos from Islands (definitely not worth the money)

Name: Danya

Location: formerly of the bay area, CA now of Durham, NC (for college)

Age: 18

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, bell peppers, raspberries, fish, cheese (especially of the goat variety)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Avocado, licorice, beets, pickles, oysters

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Year and a half

How Did You Get Here?: givmesomefood.com is my old theatre teacher and your college friend

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Greek Chicken Wrap

Name:Emily

Location:Bay Area, CA

Age:23

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, beer (does that count?), ginger, figs, pomegranate, sweet potato fries (this is too hard!)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mushrooms, shellfish, any kind of offal, i think that’s it… oh and once i had goat curry at indian buffet. never again.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: Don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Trying to use up frozen/canned type food, so, pasta with frozen shrimp, bruschetta from trader joe’s for sauce, and frozen peas. actually good.

Name: Rachel

Location: Columbia, MO

Age: 22

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Rice, goat cheese, avocado, all citrus fruit, microwave popcorn

Five Foods You Can Live Without: shrimp, bananas, button mushrooms, ham, oatmeal

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months-ish

How Did You Get Here?: link from another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: chicken and veggie fajitas, though mostly to serve as a medium for guacamole.

Name: Greg

Location: Olympia, WA, USA

Age: 46

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: asparagus, oranges, oysters, avocados, cherries

Five Foods You Can Live Without: brussels sprouts, cantaloupe, raspberries, sauerkraut, dill

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 3 months

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t remember – I started subscribing to food blogs a few months ago and got most of the links from other blogs

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I’m traveling in eastern Washington for work. I’m with a co-worker who is a Minnesota native. In a moment of unbridled nostaglia and affection for her home state, she requested that we eat at something called Perkins Restaurant and Bakery. So we pulled in to the Perkins in Ritzville (it was dark, but I wasn’t able to detect any ritz). I had the mushroom-swiss burger. It was the same as Denny’s, Shari’s, IHOP… I’m sure the food was better when it had the punchier name, Perkins ‘Cake n’ Steak.

Name: Kelly

Location: MA

Age: 17

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

1. Icecream

2. Meatballs

3. Black and White Cookies

4. Raspberries

5. Chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

1. Beets

2. Mushrooms

3. Cottage Cheese

4. Jello

5. Chili

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Quite a while now, at least a year.

How Did You Get Here?: No idea.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Well it’s 1am, and last nights dinner was pizza from a small organic place in town, the next dinner will probably just be icecream from work, since I’m working a horrible 6-10 shift.

Name: Malavika

Location: India

Age: confidential

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, potato chips, ice cream, cheese, chicken

Five Foods You Can Live Without: all fruits, pizza, pasta, polenta, all mexican food

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: link on Chocolate and Zucchini

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: indian food!

Name: Damian

Location: SoCal

Age:

Name: Katie

Location: Sacramento, CA

Age: 17

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Goat cheese, lemon cucumbers, avocado, lamb, pine nuts.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Olives, beef, pizza, any canned food, egg drop soup.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: not sure, probably a link from a random blog.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Roast Chicken breasts and spinach salad.

Name: Ash

Location: currently in Auburn, AL for school

Age: 19

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live WIthout: anything carby, sorbet, most fruits (see below) shrimp, most vegetables

Five Foods You can Live Without: Beets, pears, cheese, anything fried, chocolate

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: a link from The Girl Who Ate Everything

What’s for Dinner Tonight?: it’s 1:30 am, but earlier I had sushi (which doesn’t happen much since I’m a poor college student!)

Name: Lana

Location: Amman, Jordan

Age: 28

Sex: F

Five Foods Can’t Live Without: Pasta, Chocolate, mansaf (traditional Jordanian food), meat in general (steaks, liver, kidney), Burgers

Five foods Can Live Without: Any fish that comes in a can, cauliflower, coffee, chickpeas, brains

How long have you been reading amateur gourmet: I think around two years

How did you get here: I think through a link on Chocolate and Zucchini

What’s for dinner tonight: Probably rocket pesto fettucchine, which I made the other day and turned out delicious

Name: Arosan

Location: Ruhr-Area, Germany

Age: 30

Sex: female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Water, Coffee, Milk, Salt, Noodles

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Meat, Soy Milk, Cilantro, Chicken as a whole, Jerusalem artichoke,

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 13 minutes

How Did You Get Here?: via http://www.schnuppensuppe.de/blog/

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: fish sticks, rice, peas and carrots

Name:Dan

Location:Pittsburgh, pa

Age:27

Sex:m

Five foods You Can’t Live Without:Parsnips, red meat, cheese, potatoes, chicken

Five Foods You Can Live Without:tofu, asparagus, beets, avocado, fish

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:few months now

How Did You Get Here?:Random search on food blogs…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Depends on the weather. . .

Name: Dan Kaplan

Location: Sydney, Australia (formerly HK)

Age: 19

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

- Mother Cho’s young bamboo with chilli and shaken iced tea

- Char siu (bbq pork) with rice or flat rice noodles

- My special filipino-style fried rice with corned beef that mum unkindly described as “tastes like burnt and grit”, but i love it…

- Dumplings. Any dumplings, anytime.

- Breakfast food: omelettes, bacon, waffles…

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

- Balut

- Bananas

- Carrots

- Oysters

- Jelly

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Maybe 6 months now

How Did You Get Here?: A link from another food blog, possibly Chocolate and Zucchini

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Mum’s CNY spring rolls, prawn toast, and tom yum soup from last night :)

Name: Laura

Location: Seattle

Age: 19

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, avacados, chiles, chocolate, good bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without: broccoli

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years…?

How Did You Get Here?: a link i believe

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: cajun potatoes and eggs with a little goat cheese :)

Name: Leon

Location: Swansea, Wales

Age: 34

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Gorgonzola Cheese, Yorkshire Pudding, Pancetta, Lamb Jalfrezi, Chorizo

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Black Olives, Calamari, Paella, Mushrooms, Deep Fried Mars Bars

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 17 years

How Did You Get Here?: Car

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Gorgonzola Cheese with Yorkshire Pudding, Pancetta, Lamb Jalfrezi and Chorizo

Congrats on making no 47 in the top 50 food websites in The Independent! Epicurious was 49!

Name : Nora

Location : London via Singapore

Sex : F

5 Foods I need : Seafood, rice, red/green chillies, vegetables and chocolate

5 Foods I’ll pass : Pig’s trotters, artificial strawberry icecream, baked beans.. i get queasy just typing this

How long? 1-2 yrs

How did i get here? searching web for LaDuree

What’s for dinner tonight?

Noodles with squid, prawns and green veg in a eggy gravy

Name: Audrey

Location:Melbourne

Age:32

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Juicy red ripe tomatoes, coriander, red onions, LEMONS & rice

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Chicken Liver, fatty bacon, Green peas, pizza & lard

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Abt 5 mins

How Did You Get Here: While googling on recipes for celery+greenapple

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Lamb sausage sizzle with salsa, steamed carrots & french beans, potato salad…made by urs truly!

Name: Dahlia

Location: Jerusalem

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Olive+sesame oils, brown rice, greens, hot pepper, garlic (just the staples…)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Meat, shrimp, white flour, frozen vegetables, papaya

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A few months

How Did You Get Here?: Probably a link from either megnut or chocolate and zucchini

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Cellophane noodles with homemade peanut sauce (onions, garlic, hot pepper, brown sugar, canned tomatoes, and peanuts) topped with lots of cilantro.

Name: Sunny

Location: Cumberland, VA

Age: 42

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Cheese, Eggplant, Pizza, BBQ, Avocado,alfalfa, & goat cheese pita sandwiches

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Chocolate (ick,) meringue, bamboo shoots, sea urchin, um, did I mention chocolate?

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Couple of months (?)

How Did You Get Here: Chocolate & Zucchini

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Homemade chicken pot pie, salad with garlic vinaigrette, yeast rolls, banana pudding

Name: Susan

Location: Wilmington, NC

Age: 38

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, shellfish, fried chicken, green beans, wine (may not be food, but I’ve had it as a meal before)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: cottage cheese, peas, raisins, celery, liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: ’bout 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: Don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Daughter’s turn to pick and she wants BBQ chicken. Sides have yet to be determined.

Name: Alexis Delgado

Location: Venezuela

Age: 28

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

chocolate

kibbe

dried appricots

sushi

butter lettuce

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

spinach

brocolli

eggplant

couliflower

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: I have no idea, two years I think

How Did You Get Here?: a link somewhere

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: butter croisants

Name: Lindsay

Location: Limerick

Age: 19

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, onions, chocolate, tomatoes, & pasta

Five Foods You Can Live Without: rasins, bananas, butterscotch, scrapple, & root beer

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 4 months

How Did You Get Here?: boredom at work/ serious eats

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Leftover Curry I made last night

Name: Emily

Location: from Long Island, studying in Indiana

Age: 21

Sex: F

5 loves: pasta, pie, bread, chocolate, potatoes

5 ikks: canned veggies, tuna fish, shellfish, egg foo young, whiskey

beth

boston

48

f

Stone or Md. crabs, lobster, fresh pasta,sauv blanc, dark choc

organ meats,plain milk to drink, raw seafood, seaweed wraps, red velvet cake

beth

boston

48

f

Stone or Md. crabs, lobster, fresh pasta,sauv blanc, dark choc

organ meats,plain milk to drink, raw seafood, seaweed wraps, red velvet cake

beth

boston

48

f

Stone or Md. crabs, lobster, fresh pasta,sauv blanc, dark choc

organ meats,plain milk to drink, raw seafood, seaweed wraps, red velvet cake

Name: Rosemary

Location: Bangalore, India

Age: Between 20 and 30

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Bread, Egg, Coffee, Rice, Fish

Five Foods You Can Live Without: many

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a week

How Did You Get Here?: Clotilde’s link

Name: Erin

Location: Richmond, VA

Age: 28

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, pasta, mushrooms, chocolate, nuts

Five Foods You Can Live Without: cole slaw, celery, eel, kale, raisins

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: year and a half

How Did You Get Here?: can’t remember!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: hopefully, my date :)

Name: Stephanie

Location: USA

Age: 35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, chicken, potatoes, bread, veggies/fruit

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, hazel nuts, brazil nuts, leeks, mustard greens

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1-2 years (you’re awesome!)

How Did You Get Here?: originally from Chocolate & Zucchini (have since linked to you)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: chicken w/bbq, baked potatoes, and mixed veggies

Name: Becky

Location: Louisville, KY

Age: 24

Sex: F

Can’t Live without: chicken, chocolate, cheese, pasta, salsa

Can Live without: mayonnaise, celery, sushi, shellfish, bell peppers

Reading: a month or so

How Did You Get Here: searching food blogs at work

Dinner tonight: Leftover spaghetti and garlic bread from last night

Name: Illtud, but my friends call me Bob.

Location: Pontnewydd a tiny hamlet in rural Wales, United Kingdom.

Age:26

Sex:Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Potatoes (which ever way they come), good quality bread (not that horrible mass produced muck), salted butter (yup, I’m real healthy), fruit cake(we’ve got a traditional cake here in Wales called Bara Brith(freckled bread) and I’m rather partial) as for meat – pork is probably my favourite(pate, chops, loin, black pudding, sausages – the choices are endless).

Five Foods You Can Live Without:Courgette, Aubergine, Liqourice, Aniseed, Olives

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:A couple of years now I guess.

How Did You Get Here?:I think it was from Pim’s site, but I can’t be sure about that.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Toad in the Hole, do you have that in the States? Sausages oven cooked then covered in a batter mix and baked. With some veg from the garden, creamed leeks, some cabbage and sauteed potatoes.

Name: Jennifer A

Location: West Springfield, MA

Age:35

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Cheese, crusty bread, dark chocolate, pasta, seafood

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Licorice, anything Indian, anything that leaves orange powder on my fingers, beer, raw bell peppers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: Renae

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vietnamese at the Bamboo House in Springfield, MA, with jbo (and we didn’t get carjacked.)

Name: Deb

Location: Somerset, NJ

Age: 37

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Agave nectar, peanut butter, garlic, grapeseed oil, bananas

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beef, fowl, pork, “diet” anything, poppy seeds

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: At least 2 years.

How Did You Get Here?: Kiplog’s list

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Organic whole wheat rigatoni, homemade organic tomato sauce, and spinach salad sans bacon.

Name: Jo

Location: Newton, MA

Age:42

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Cheese, crusty bread, olive oil, garlic, olives

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Chocolate, Chicory, Salmon (cooked, I love it raw or smoked), Lima beans, licorice

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 years

How Did You Get Here?: Can’t remember now

What’s For Dinner Tonight? At the moment, turkey cutlets, mashed potato (skin on with chive), green veg to be decided – however I am about to embark on a shopping trip for my thai class on Monday, Super 88 could change my mind when I start sniffing and touching things. We shall see.

Name: Carly

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Age: 27

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Cheese, peanut butter, avocado, pasta, grape tomatoes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: onions, mushrooms, celery, hot dogs, and strange internal organs of animals

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Probably 2 years or so

How Did You Get Here?: A link from a blog award you were nominated for.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

Meeting some friends at Po, so probably cavatelli, though I’m curious about the specials.

Name: Matt Johnson

Location: Atlanta, GA

Age: 30

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Fried Chicken, any type of cheese, siopao, spinach, bananas

Five Foods You Can Live Without: lima beans, cranberry sauce, creamed corn, green peas, liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since the Atlanta days!

How Did You Get Here?: Don’t remember at this point

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chick-Fil-A! or Crack-Fil-A as I like to call it, so addictive.

Name: Erina

Location: MA

Age: 25-30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

dark chocolate, tomato, garlic, fresh herbs, soy sauce

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

uncommon meaty parts, drinks with artificial flavors, coffee, nuts (allergic), anything fermented

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: from Tuna Toasts

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: beef stew!

Name:

Location: Long Island

Age: 17

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, Strip steak, Sweet potatoes, Mozzarella cheese, Bananas

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Shrimp, Tuna fish, Olives, Sausage, most kinds of nuts

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: Through a Google search for Babbo reviews

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Don’t know yet

Name: Anna

Location: Mill Valley, CA

Age: 48

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: strawberries, figs, asparagus, pasta, rice

Five Foods You Can Live Without: oranges, GMO, cukasaurus, liver, uni

How Long Have You Been Reading Kalyn’s Kitchen?: occasionally for more than a year

How Did You Get Here?: a link from Kalyn’s Kitchen

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: wild salmon and parsnips, I think.

Name: Tina

Location: Auburn, IN

Age:39

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:chocolate, nachos, pasta, fliet mignon med., potatoes, seafood

Five Foods You Can Live Without:mushrooms, coconut, raisins, tea, popcorn

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since 2004

How Did You Get Here?: Lord I don’t even remember now!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Grilled New York Strips, Twive Baked Potatoes and Roasted Zuccini and Yellow Squash.

Name: Joanne

Location: Indiana

Age: 32

Sex: F

5 foods I can’t live w/o: chocolate, bread, garlic, breakfast cereals, desserts

5 foods I can live w/o: tomatoes, liver, brussel sprouts, goulash, mussels

How long have I been reading AG: a year or so? not sure!

How did I get here? I believe thru a link on the Food Whore’s website but I’m not sure.

What’s for Dinner Tonight? hamburgers made from home grown, free-range, non-hormone injected beef raised by my future father in law. and whatever else i can scrounge up. maybe o-rings?

Name: Chad

Location: Florida

Age: 29

Sex: M

5 Foods I Can’t Live W/O: BBQ Pork in any form, Potatoes in any form, Lasagna, Chicken Wings

5 Foods I Can Live W/O: Olives, “Fishy” fish, anything else cooked poorly

How long: not sure, 6+ months

How did I get here: link from some other site

What’s for dinner: Fiancee’s Mom’s Birthday … so going out.

Name: LaToya

Location: NC, US

Age:25

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Rice, chicken, potatoes, brownies, cabbage

Five Foods You Can Live Without: oysters, sauerkraut, olives, pate, goat cheese

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Around a year.

How Did You Get Here?: I stumbled upon it randomly in a search for new food blogs.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Left over improvised beef curry made with potatoes, spinach, and soy milk.

Name: Katie

Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Age: 27

Gender: F

Five Foods I Can’t Live Without: bread, cheese, potatoes, sushi, tomatoes

Five Foods I Can Live Without: uni, okra, watermelon, crab, donuts

How Long Have I Been Reading AG: ages

How Did I Get Here: link from another blog

What’s for Dinner: drunken beef and wasabi mashed potatoes from Cooking Light

Name: Carrie

Location: Iowa

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: dark chocolate, sushi, yogurt, ripe summer fruit, fresh herbs – they make everything better

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Olives, dill pickles, sauerkraut, processed cheese…

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: a google search for mini bundt cake pans turned up your bundty and the bundtlettes post!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: salmon and some roasted vegetables

Name: Eva

Location: Honolulu and Boston

Age: 20

Sex: F

Foods I can’t live with out: Hawaiian Papayas, apple bananas (also from hawaii,) fish (preferably Alan Wong’s Ginger Encrusted Onaga,) Pho and temple rolls from Hale Vietnam, almost all greek mezze, roasted squash from Hennrietta’s Table, figs, tomatoes, and asparagus.

Foods I can live with out: ARUGULA! Red meat (including pork, I swear the slogan “the other white meat” is the best marketing ploy ever.) Anything with tentacles, 90% of fried food (because usually fried food is heavy and leaden not crispy and delicious,) white chocolate.

How long have I been reading AG: two years

What is for dinner tonight? Dining hall food- I checked the menu and have already decided on grilled chicken, sauteed spinach with garlic and a side of cheerios!

Name: Court

Location: Murky Grey Boston

Age: Newly Minted 28

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Garlic, Goat Cheese, Spinach, Tomatoes, Pasta

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Olives, Radishes, Truffles, Squab, anything pickled

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: on and off a year

How Did You Get Here?: work at Oldways, foodie non-profit, all we do is food.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: good question. think I’m going to try this kale, mushroom polenta from gourmet as I had some veggies delivered and I’ve never made polenta.

name:Kathleen

Madison, Wisconsin

age:56

Sex:F

5 foods I can’t live w/o:

butter, coffee, tomato sauce, fish, garlic

5 foods I can’t live with:

hominy, tripe, canned vegetables, margarine, the curly part of calimari squid

I’ve been reading about 5 months

I tripped across the site accidentally and the name drew me in. I love your personality and Creg’s, and everyones verve. It’s the only site I read daily.

For dinner: curry pork meatballs, couscous with chopped vegetables. Not an average meal for us.

Kim

Maryland

27

F

Can’t live without: chocolate, any kind of fruit, leafy green vegetables, fresh corn tortillas, cheese

Can live without: shortening, anything processed, grocery store cakes

I’ve been reading for about 1 year

Heard about AG thru another site

For dinner: butternut squash and cauliflower curry with rice

Name: Shana Gozansky

Location:Brooklyn–Kensington to be exact

Age:28

Sex: All Woman

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, sushi, risotto, grapefruit, lattes

Five Foods You Can Live Without:pudding, shitake mushrooms, sardines, green peppers, twinkies and the like

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: almost a year

How Did You Get Here?: the blogospere

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: roasted chicken, sweet potato fries and salad

Name: Sarah

Location: New York City (Upper West Side)

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: pasta, almost all cheeses, olive oil, ice cream, full sour pickles

Five Foods You Can Live Without: bleu cheeses, eggplant, sundried tomato, egg drop soup, smoked salmon

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: at least 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: I can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: corn chowder (homemade, of course!)

Name:Mary

Location:Denton, TX

Age:25

Sex:Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:tomatoes, leafy greens, bread, butter, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

marshmallows, papaya, mountain potato, aspic, rice pudding

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since Janet!

How Did You Get Here?:My sister told me about it.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:not sure yet… beanie weenies?

Name: purplepops

Location: NYC

Age: 31

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Sushi, Dean&Deluca Coffee, lobster, all kinds of noodles/pasta, dairy

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Blue Cheese, canned veggies, spam, cream of wheat, fruit punch

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Not sure. about a year?

How Did You Get Here?: Googling food blogs

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Spaghetti with ground beef and parsley in tomato cream sauce.

Name: TJ

Location: New Orleans

Age: 27

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Citrus, Seafood, Peanut Butter, Cheese, Bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without: jello, peas, coconut, salmon roe, instant mashed potatoes

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: Simply Recipies

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: shrimp & crab gumbo ( great cure for post-mardi gras hangover)

What a cool readership you have!

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Name: Meghan

Location: Brooklyn

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: aged gouda, avocados, olive oil, a perfect tomato, pork belly, those crack dumplings from Yeah Shaghai Deluxe in Chinatown

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Bananas, raisins, Mentos

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: only recently, but I’m a fan

How Did You Get Here?: NY Times

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Winter squash soup, after I pick up my long-anticipated immersion blender, with some croutons and a salad.

Name: Carmen

Location: D.C.

Age: 23

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: almonds, berries (esp. wild blueberries and cherries), rice, Greek yogurt, and chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: carbonated beverages, most meat, mayonnaise, bacon, sausage

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2-2.5 years

How Did You Get Here?: Probably a link from another food blog. I think through Chocolate & Zucchini.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade veggie soup and brown rice

Name: Carmen

Location: D.C.

Age: 23

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: almonds, berries (esp. wild blueberries and cherries), rice, Greek yogurt, and chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: carbonated beverages, most meat, mayonnaise, bacon, sausage

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2-2.5 years

How Did You Get Here?: Probably a link from another food blog. I think through Chocolate & Zucchini.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade veggie soup and brown rice

Name: marc

Location: Washington, DC

Age: 30

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: A’Matriciana, Bacon, Curry, Espresso, Mangos, squash

Five Foods You Can Live Without: brussel sprouts, ham (i.e. ham that is a source of income, not a birthright), liver & onions, asparagus (unless obscenely fresh), tinned jalapenos

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 or 4 months

How Did You Get Here?: don’t remember anymore

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: pasta with olive oil, Parmesan and rapini.

Name:Jennifer

Location:live in Germany,born/grew up in Italy and married to an american

Age:29

Sex:f

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: my eggplant parmigiana, nutella, pasta with ragu’ sauce(meat sauce),my husband’s apple pie and bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without:american popcorn,beets, fatty meat,bell peppers and cooked onions

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 10 months

How Did You Get Here?:from an other food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:chicken stir fry

Name: Clary

Location:Santiago, Chile

Age: 52

Sex: Not anymore, thank you. He, he. Now seriously, F.

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, walnuts, coffee, any dessert, bread.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: coliflower, beans, beets, any animal interior (except liver), grapefruit, mint candy.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3-4 years

How Did You Get Here?: Looking for cupcakes, the first hit was Janet’s cupcakes.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Scrambled eggs in pita, fruit salad and yoghurt. And a small piece of chocolate, of course.

Thanks!

OH. MY. GOD.

You are one popular dude!

Name: Caley

Location: Chicago

Age: 22

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Udon, Pork Ribs, sea bass sashimi, Dubliner’s Cheese, green beans

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Ground Beef, Mayo, canned tuna, American cheese, Most Box Cereal

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Almost a year

How Did You Get Here?: Write for Chew on That Blog and Recipe4Living.com, love the site!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chicken and Mushrooms, red wine, and couscous

laura k

Boston, MA

27

lady

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: pasta, peanut butter, tomatoes, chickens, olive oil

Five Foods You Can Live Without: moldy cheese, peas, cod, kimchee, tripe

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: at least a year

How Did You Get Here?: If I recall correctly, The Paupered Chef. And thus spawned a new obsession.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Mmm, Zon’s for the mister’s birthday dinner. Lamb burgers? Mac and cheese? The options are staggering…

Nicole

Culver City in Kirk Faulkner’s apartment

27

Tomato, cheese, dark chocolate, lettuce, chicken

raw fish, eggplant, organ meats, papaya, orange bang

1 year

blog to blog contact

i want to make pizza…

Name: Al

Location: Berkeley, CA

Age: 21

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: wine, heirloom tomatoes, citrus, greek yogurt, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: pasta, taro root, durian, sea urchin, tripe

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: early 2005

How Did You Get Here?: followed some links

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: scallops and salmon over greens + citrus and shallot vinaigrette

Name:

Location:

Age:25

Sex:f

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, bacon, kimchi, tacos, cured meats

Five Foods You Can Live Without: offal, chocolate & mint combo, raisans, anything licorice, processed cheese

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: hmm don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: kalbi & king oyster mushrooms with red leaf lettuce, sesame leaves, scallion salad

Name:

Location:

Age:22

Sex:please

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: perfect chips & salsa, feta cheese, lemon, fresh fish, and dark chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chicken breast, iceberg lettuce, english peas, raisns, and red onion

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: few months

How Did You Get Here?: links? don’t remember anymore but I love it!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Wingfield’s (Voted best burgers in Dallas) for dinner with the in-laws!!

Name:Deanna

Location: Toronto

Age: 30 (but i swear, i was 29 just last year)

Sex: not much

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: oranges, berries, chocolate, cinnamon, something creamy

Five Foods You Can Live Without: cabbage, ground beef, radicchio, chicken skin, gummi candy

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: couple years

How Did You Get Here?: typed in the address

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: no idea! Maybe some kind of soup?

Name:Anastasija

Location: New York/London (studying)

Age: 21

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: ice cream, bagels, raspberries, chicken, salad

Five Foods You Can Live Without: tomatoes, licorice, burgers, boiled carrots (i’m sorry but carrots are a food meant to be eaten raw), microwavable foods

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: almost a year?

How Did You Get Here?: link from some other food blog, maybe orangette?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: just made zucchini in oyster sauce (is that weird? it’s good anyway) with rice

Name: Beth

Location: Twin Cities area

Age: 40

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

cheese

bread

chocolate

asparagus

squash (both summer and winter)

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

onions

radishes

oysters

liver

bell peppers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since shortly after the infamous Janet Jackson cupcakes

How Did You Get Here?: from the Not Martha website

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

a white bean soup and freshly baked bread

Name:MEGASTEIN

Location:L.A., CA

Age:32

Sex:FEMALE

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:BEETS, MARYLAND BLUE CRABS, OATMEAL, RED BEAN PASTE, PICKLED ANYTHING

Five Foods You Can Live Without: BEEF LIVER, RAW TOMATO, SOUR CANDY, RED CURRY, ARUGULA

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 YEARS

How Did You Get Here?: 101 COOKBOOKS

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: POLENTA TOPPED WITH MUSHROOM RAGOUT, WINTER SALAD WITH BEETS AND FETA, RED BEAN ICE CREAM FOR DESSERT

Leslie

San Jose

21

Female

+: eggs, fish, wonton soup, fresh ripe fruit, and oysters

-: cilantro, boudin noir (and other blood related products), white chocolate, soda, wonder bread

reading for 3 years, accidentally through the janet jackson cupcake post

dinner: corned beef and braised cabbage/carrots

Name: Debbie

Location: St. Louis

Age: 49

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: proscuitto, goat cheese, tomatoes, rice, olives

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peas, green peppers, beets, grapefruit, lima beans

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 1 year,

How Did You Get Here?: found through friend’s blog (food migration)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Greek Salad with Gyro meat

Name: Tom

Age: 35

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pizza, Pork (generally, but especially bacon, barbecue shoulder, prosciutto… ah hell, the whole thing), red wine, tomatoes, foie gras

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Collard greens, Spelt, Veggie Burgers, Congee, Minestrone Soup

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet? A month or two

How Did You Get Here? Link from grub street, I think?

What’s For Dinner Tonight? Quiche, most likely, probably with spinach salad.

Name: Lee

Location: Mildura, Australia

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pasta, steak, salad, baked potatoes, bread (toast)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Sultanas, Christmas pudding, hot cross buns, salad dressing, creamy pasta sauces

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: four months

How Did You Get Here?: through smittenkitchen.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: garlic and chilli prawns

Name: Trav

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Age: 28

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: blood orange, dark chocolate, bread (white, wholemeal, cibatta, sourdough, garlic), olive oil, red meat

Five Foods You Can Live Without: fennel seeds, margarine, organ meat, most cheese, nuts

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Many, many months

How Did You Get Here?: link from another blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Fish and Chips from the local.

Name:Susan

Location:Helena, MT

Age:???

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Beef, cheeses, chocolate, coffee, potato chips.

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Avocado, ketchup (yuck), oysters, hothothot chilies, Rocky mountain oysters (different than sea oysters!)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Forever, it seems, but truly just after “Janet” and a long time before Craig was introduced!

How Did You Get Here?Hmmm, obviously a link from somewhere…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Gotta make do with leftovers…homemade mac and cheese, fresh veggies and some roasted chicken before we go to our daughter’s concert.

Name: Valerie

Location: New Mexico

Age: 53

Sex: I prefer “gender”: female

Five foods I can’t live without: New Mexican-grown green chile, pasta, potatoes, butter, filet mignon

Five foods I can live without: brains, tartare, fried grasshoppers, kidney beans and tofu

How long have I been reading Amateur Gourmet: maybe three or four months

How did I get here? web surfing; who knows?

What’s for dinner tonight: green chile chicken enchiladas, extra hot!

Name: Kris

Location:Caribbean

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Chocolate

Cookies

Pizza

Red Onions

Granny smith apples

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Peanut Butter

Beets

Chick peas

Chicken

Rice

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Years

How Did You Get Here?:don’t recall!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: i’m devouring a giant vanilla mockshake – dont feel like food and my wisdom teeth are being crappy.

Name: Cate

Location: Delaware

Age: 42

Sex: F

Can’t live without: french fries, roasted brussels sprouts, bacon, beef, eggs

Can live without: pineapple, offal, tea with hibiscus in it, lima beans, artichokes

Reading Amateur Gourmet: for a very long time and can’t remember how I found you.

Dinner tonight: breakfast, cooked by my husband. Hitting three of the favorites: hash browns (almost french fries), bacon, and eggs.

Name: Courtney

Location: Daytona Area Florida

Age: 23

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Boursin, fresh fruits of any kind, sushi, french fries, wine (if that counts!)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: pickles, ranch dressing, chocolate ice cream, raisins

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: several months

How Did You Get Here?: stumbled along a link from another blog — I think it was Orangette

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: just got back from sushi at our favorite local place

Name: Adam H.

Location: West Springfield, MA

Age: 35

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Sushi/sashimi

Eggs

Cheese

Milk

Bagels

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Uni

Okra

Turnip/mustard greens

Turkey

Vegemite/Marmite

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Years

How Did You Get Here?: Through one of the food bloggers at masslive.com.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tonight it was a roasted bone-in chicken breast and some steamed organic green beans, and a half glass of 2% milk, all from Trader Joe’s. On the chicken breast was a liberal shake of Goya Adobo.

Name:Sarah

Age: 29

Sex: Yes!

5 Foods: Unpasteurized Cheesees, Wine, Artisan Breads, Pate, Dark Chocolate (clearly, I’m a Francoholic)

How Long: From nearly its inception

How Here: A good friend (with whom you later had lunch with at a soul food spot) forwarded a link of your Les Mis/egg post

What’s for Dinner: Pasta Amatriciana

Oooh, I am a bad student–I didn’t read the questions as thoroughly as I should have.

Location: Atlanta (Sandy Springs)

Can Live Without: Sweet Potatoes, Angel Food Cake (blech), Haggis, anything Arby’s,Schnapps

Oooh, I am a bad student–I didn’t read the questions as thoroughly as I should have.

Location: Atlanta (Sandy Springs)

Can Live Without: Sweet Potatoes, Angel Food Cake (blech), Haggis, anything Arby’s,Schnapps

Name: Lydia

Location: Vancouver, BC

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: olive oil, blueberries and bananas on my oatmeal, good bread, good cheese.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: avocado, blue cheese, bison, doritos, non-free range eggs

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a month or 2

How Did You Get Here?: Orangette

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: spaghetti with pesto and salmon- out of groceries, had to go with cupboard stuff

Name: Erin

Location: Tennessee

Age: 29

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

-Chicken

-Cheeses, especially Boursin & Smoked Gouda

-Honey Crisp Apples

-Fresh Raspberries/Mango

-Dark Chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

-Bad BBQ (I Live near Memphis)

-Chitterings- gag!

-Liver

-Sweet Potatoes/Yams

-Offal meats

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Almost a year

How Did You Get Here?: Through My Yahoo page

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

BBQ’d Kielbasa

Youkon gold potatoes

Seasoned cabbage cooked with onions and bacon.

Thanks! No, Thank You Adam!!!

Name: Tracy

Location: Illinois

Sex: yes please

Five foods you can’t live without:

Freshly baked bread, fruit, shrimp, popcorn, ice cream

Five foods you can live without:

Liver & onions, hominy, store bought white bread, canned spinach, most any frozen entree

How long have you been reading AG? Since you were in Atlanta

How did I get here? My Net NewWire feed…you are on RSS

What’s for dinner tonight? Um, since we were late to kids’ events-Jimmy John’s. Tom Turkey with spouts, and a couple of Vitos (the original Jimmy John’s is here)

Name: Alto2

Location: Southwest Florida a/k/a ethnic food hell

Age: 44

Sex: female

Five foods I can’t live without: sushi, pho, popcorn, Doritos, Pink Lady apples

Five foods I can live without: brussels sprouts, okra, grits, Vienna sausages, beets

How long have I been reading AG: 3 months, since 11/06

How did I get here? From Shuna Fish Lydon’s “Eggbeater” blog.

What’s for dinner tonight? DS2′s favorite “Crunchy Chicken”, baked potatoes and tossed salad. Suburban but delicious: nothing beats crisp chicken skin with the fat rendered off.

Name: Seema

Location: Seattle (but I missed the AG get-together :()

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, apples, dim-sum, bread and charcuterie of all sorts.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Liver(excluding foie gras), broccoli, fake meat products, processed cheese, cooked carrots.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since around the time Pancetta made her appearance I suspect.

How Did You Get Here?: Twas something related to a discussion on egullet that brought me here..

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Rotis, methi matar malai and Dal.. just simple, homecooked Indian food, that’s all.

Name:WokkingMum

Location: Singapore

Age: 36

Sex: Female

Five Food I can’t live without: Chinese, Japanese, Ice Cream, Coke, Dessert

Five Food I can live without: Too many I don’t know which to list. ;p

How long have I been reading Amateur Gourmet?: It’s my first visit here! Will be back for more!

How did I get here?: thru GroupRecipe.com

What’s for dinner tonight?: The kids are have sweet Chicken Wings and ABC Soup. We have having Stir-fried Prawns in Dark Soy Sauce. … Come visit me at http://wokkingmum.blogspot.com when you are free. I’ll be posting the recipes tomorrow!

Name: Sijbrich

Location: temporarily in Italy, but live in Boise, ID

Age:28

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Chocolate, cheese, ice cream, pasta, green vegetables

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chicken feet, marzipan, Vegimite, sea cucumber, durian

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 week

How Did You Get Here?:link from http://www.definitelyra.blogspot.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: gnoicchi

Name: Agata

Location: Sopot, Poland

Age:27

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: yoghurt, bread, tomatoes, muesli, ice cream

Five Foods You Can Live Without: brussels, meat, margarine, candies, chips

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: by links

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: pasta

Name: Nanda

Location: Portugal

Age: 25

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Chocolatte

Eggs

Bread

Fresh vegetables

Aromatic Herbs & spices

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

meat

artichokes

shitake

canned foods

junk food

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: links from other food bloggers

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vegeterian Lasagne with lots of muzzarella cheese and tomato sauce. And for desert maybe a delicious chocolatte brownie with vannila ice cream or a petit gateaux.

Congratulations to your blog!

Name: Linda

Location: Paris

Age: 50

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

chocolate

Beef

Potatoes

Tomatoes

Eggs

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Any “innards” except fois gras

sausage

coffee

Thai food-hate lemon grass

yogurt

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: link from Chocolate and Zucchini

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Pot au Feu, which is really a boiled beef dinner with veggies cooked in broth.

Name: Page

Location: Coastal South Carolina

Age: 46

Gender: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Dark beer, Mexican food, beans, tofu, leaf lettuce

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Liver, other organ meats,fish,shell fish,fast foods

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2-3 years

How Did You Get Here?: link on Yahoo

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Pizza w/ a huge leafy salad!

Name: Claire

Location: Tokyo

Age: 28

Gender: F

Five foods you can’t live without: Vegemite, eggplant, Chicken, Fetta, Bread.

Five foods you can live without: Natto, Kidneys, shellfish, peanut butter, Natto

How long have you been reading: 1 month

How did you get here: Google reader

Whats for dinner tonight: Chicken and couscous salad.

Name: ben bloom

Location: brooklyn

Age: 29

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cereal, eggs, pizza, chicken, PB&J, does beer count as food?

Five Foods You Can Live Without: brocolli, cauliflower, bitter greens, asparagus, milk.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: yahoo i think

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: probably pizza at capones, or leftover roasted chicken that i made last night.

Name: Amy

Location: Providence, RI (from Berkeley, CA)

Age: 21

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Avocado, tomato, olives/oil, cheese (the reason I stopped being vegan), hearty whole wheat bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Meat/fish/poultry, orange-flavored chocolate, soda, eggs, kale.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A few years…

How Did You Get Here?: Probably Clotilde @ chocolateandzucchini.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Homemade soup (carrot, sweet potato, and spinach), probably something carb-related that I grab randomly – oh, college.

Name: emma firestone

Location: cambridge, UK (late of boston, MA)

Age: 23

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: carrots, Turkish yogurt, crusty bread, hummus, onions / garlic / ginger.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mayonnaise, milk, any sort of melon, any sort of juice, mashed potatoes.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: maybe 8 months. (it’s great!)

How Did You Get Here?: food-blog browsing.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: either braised chicken thighs & greens over rice or bucatini w/ ragu. depends what’s gonna go off first.

pam

thailand

42

f

truly excellent coffee, truly excellent red wine, steamed maine lobster, dark chocolate, and great bread

durian, brussel sprouts, black jelly beans, red Fanta (and green, for that matter), and grass jelly

6 months

chezpim

pad thai gai (that’s with chicken)

Name: Elke

Location: San Jose, CA

Age: 29

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: homegrown tomatoes, ripe apricots, sausage, wine, any kind of cheese (preferably soft, especially on crusty bread with avocado)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: soup, tripe, boiled veggies, tongue, BBQ sauce

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: food blog browsing (Chez Pim?, I love Manresa!)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: mushroom bread pudding, similar to a quiche

Name: Hannah

Location: Providence, RI

Age: 22

Sex: female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: DARK chocolate, bread, eggplant, SPICES, beets

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mayonnaise, brains (only because of the disease factor). everything else i could take or leave.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: chance

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: CAMPING FOOD.

Name: Scott

Location: Boston, MA

Age: 31

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Pizza, Sushi, fresh mozzarella, pad thai, Gu energy gel

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

grasshopper empanadas, broccoli rabe, that’s about it, I like everything.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Six months?

How Did You Get Here?: I honestly don’t remember, some other food blog, Chez Pim maybe?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Wonton Noodle Soup and Szechuan chicken raviolis.

Name:eva

Location:east village, nyc

Age:21

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:oysters, stinky cheese, feta cheese, peaces, raspberries, lamb chops

Five Foods You Can Live Without: offal, hazelnuts

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: year-ish

How Did You Get Here?: can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: big greek salad, glass of red wine

Name: Sarah

Location: Atl, GA

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Fois Gras, Goat Cheese, Lobster, Sausage, almonds

Five Foods You Can Live Without: califlower, mustard greens, fennel

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: heard about you when you were still in Atlanta from John Kessler

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade Bolegnese sauce that i spent last Sunday cooking. yum!

Name: Väös

Location: The Netherlands

Age: 29

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: steaks, red thai curry, fresh pasta, zoervleis (a local stew), cote-d’or chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: salmon, liver, fish that look you in the eye, chicken on the bone, caramel pudding

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: fellow foodblogger link

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: fresh pasta with red pepper and tomato sauce and a little sour cream

Name: Gillian

Location: Toronto, Canada

Age: 20

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

tuna

salmon

sweet potatoes

mutsu apples

meditteranean yoghurt

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

potato chips

fries

canned soup

frozen vegetables

low fat yoghurt

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 yrs

How Did You Get Here?: I think it was Chocolate and Zuchinni…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: hostess at a restaurant, so I’ll probably get a goat cheese salad with walnuts and grilled chicken as my free meal!

I can’t believe how many people answered Sex: yes please!

Maybe this blog’s the fault of us not getting enough sex… Or is it the food?

Name: Marti

Location: Stamford, CT

Age: 26

Sex: I’m a chick

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Cashew butter, medjool dates, brown rice sushi, chocolate cakes in all sorts of varieties, tomatoes.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Raw onions, liver, pork of any kind, oranges, raisins.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: At least a year, but quite possibly more than that. I’m not very good at keeping track of these things.

How Did You Get Here?: I have no idea.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Lentil vegetable soup, tilapia fajitas, onion scented quinoa with stir-fried zucchini and mushrooms, applesauce spice cake. Friday dinner and Saturday lunch are big meals in my house. Tomorrow it’s curried chicken with vegetables over brown rice with split pea soup and mango salad.

Name: Shawn

Location: Boston, MA

Age: 26

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Chocolate

Coffee

Sugar

Milk

Garlic

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Hmm, I’d rather not. I love variety–even if I don’t love something I’d try it again, especially in some new combination.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since Winter 2004

How Did You Get Here?: I think I followed a link from Chocolateand Zucchini after finding Clotilde from a NY Times article.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Yogurt and fruit. But last night it was baingan bharta, my favorite Indian dish (made with eggplant–you should try it! Or better yet, make it!)

Name: Susan

Location: California

Age: 58

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Dark Chocolate, homemade Mac and Cheese, seafood, artichokes, and lemons

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Cooked carrots, tofu, green bell peppers, already masticated or processed meats, store bought cookies

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: couple of months

How Did You Get Here?: Google

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Tilapia with sautéed spinach and whole wheat roll

Kathy

Illinois

22 (this week!)

Yes: Good bread, hummus, snap peas, pancakes, scones

No: Olives, natto, non-vegan things

Reading: About a year

How: Food Porn Watch

Tonight: A great baguette with honey, peanut butter, and avacado (not together!), then grapes and Turkish coffee.

Name: Lu

Location: Huntington Beach CA

Age: 55 (but don’t tell anyone!)

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Mango, artichoke, yogurt, steak, romaine

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peanut butter, cold cereal, hmmm…think I like most everything

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Maybe a year.

How Did You Get Here?: I have no idea.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Grilled fish tacos at a local Mexican restaurant (It’s Lent and we’re Catholic -> no meat)

Name: Paula

Location: Colorado

Age: 53

Sex: Female

Five foods you can’t live without: Buttered toast, popcorn, yogurt, apples,chicken

Five foods you can live without: liver, bacon, chocolate, bananas, avacados.

How long have you been reading Amateur Gourmet? Only a couple months.

How did you get here? Megnut to Serious Eats to Amateur Gourmet.

What’s for dinner? Homemade turkey pot pie.

Name: Ryan Melzer

Location: Arizona

Age: 27

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

1.)Avocados

2.)Beef

3.)Fish

4.)Potatoes

5.)Horchata

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

1.)Tomatoes (really)

2.)Blue Cheese

3.)Cilantro

4.)Menudo

5.)Diet Soda

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A year maybe?

How Did You Get Here?: By way of TDK

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Don’t know yet

Name: Trish

Location: Omaha, NE USA

Age: 57

Sex: Female

5 foods I can’t live without: almost anything italian, almost anything mexican, bread, cream cheese and steak

5 foods I can live without: liver, brussels sprouts, eggplant, processed cheese food (velveeta – dog loves it though), lamb

How long reading AG: 6 months

How did I get here: Another blog – maybe simply recipes?

What’s for dinner tonight: Homemade lasagna, salad, homemade italian bread dipped in good olive oil, parnesan cheese and cracked pepper…

Name: Sarah Campbell

Location: Sydney, Australia

Age: 30

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: fresh oysters, gooey cheeses, sushi of any kind/description, prosciutto, fresh bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without: tinned pig’s trotters I had in Spain and cold black pudding (I’ll eat it fried but cold is wrong) and that’s about it

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Hm. 2 years? Maybe 3?

How Did You Get Here?: I can’t remember – I think you were linked from another blog I read (that I don’t read anymore!)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Squid stuffed with feta, parsley and chorizo

Name: Sheri

Location: Northern California

Age: 30-something

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: pizza, green salad, chocolate, coffee/tea, tacos, cheese (ooops, that’s six)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: uncooked tomatoes, uncooked onions, canned green beans, dr. pepper, arugula

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: several months

How Did You Get Here?: serious eats

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: (blushing) frozen pizza…hey, it’s friday pizza night! yeah, what can i say? we suck in the cooking deparment lately…

Name: Sarine

Location: Pennsylvania

Age: 31

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

- warm bread + butter

- eggplant

- stuffed arthichokes

- argentine empanadas

- chocolate pudding

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

- gummi bears

- sea vegetables

- mass produced smoothies

- iceberg lettuce

- meat

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: straight to it

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: red cabbage, apple and beet salad with mustard vinagriette and warm goat cheese crostini

Name: Carol

Location: Baltimore, MD

Age: Not 40 yet!

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Roasted chicken, pasta, broccoli, cheese, garlic

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Mushrooms, eggs, liver, cilantro, candied citron

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A few months

How Did You Get Here?: You’re in my blogroll.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Roasted chicken with garlic mashed potatoes, corn, and…some kind of baby green salad with a vinaigrette.

Name: Randi

Location: Southwestern Ontario, Canada (But I’m American)

Age: 40(gasp)

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pizza,pasta,berries,peanut butter cheese, skim milk

Five Foods You Can Live Without: beef,salmon,blue cheese, dark tuna,ham

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about a year

How Did You Get Here?: linked

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: potstickers and brocoli cheese soup.

Name: Sharon

Location: NJ–outside NYC

Age: 50

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: pasta, cheese, olive oil, garlic, asparagus

Five Foods You Can Live Without: string beans, Wonder Bread, any fast food, ham, meat loaf

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: grilled wild salmon (following Mark Bittman’s recent tips on using the broiler), wild/brown rice, broccoli, pinot noir.

Name: Rosie

Location: Sacramento, CA

Age: 34

Sex: Female

5 Foods I Can’t Live w/Out: cheese, bread, pasta, tomatoes, garlic

5 Foods I Can Live w/Out: anything processed and fast foods in general

How Long Have I Been Reading: 6-8 months

How Did I Get Here: Linked at some point now you are one of my favorites

What’s for dinner tonight: A big salad (but I may ask hubby to pick up some Mexican)

Name: Grace

Location: Orange County, CA

Age: 21

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, sushi, pasta, fruits, mexican food

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mushrooms, olives, cheesecake, walnuts, diet sodas

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Over a year, bare minimum

How Did You Get Here?: I can’t even remember, but you are linked as a favorite now

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Not sure yet. I’m kind of in the mood for something really unhealthy (young metabolism and all, HA)

Name: Arloe

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Age: 27

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Procuitto, cheese, mushrooms, pasta, spinach

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Raw onions, okra, black licorice, cilantro, green peppers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 1 month

How Did You Get Here?: There’s a site called http://www.ottawafoodies.com that has a forum, and one of the topics was “What foodie websites do you frequent?”. One of the responders mentioned this site and had a link connectin to the Ducase/White Truffle post. Click!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Gah! Nothing. I’ve been cooking for 11 strait hours – 8am – 2pm Lunch Service at my cooking school’s restaurant (my first ever!!! My recipe!!! People paying MONEY for MY recipe!!!! Booyah! It was Bison Medallions with Foie Gras Mustard, and Pear, Onion and Blueberry Compote), then at 2:30pm I had to go strait into a 5 hour blackbox workshop. The overall theme of my day today was “don’t cough in the food” seeing as I have a disgusting chest cold too, which is another reason why I’m having no dinner…no appetite. Blah.

Name: Sandra

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Age: 31

Sex: Lady

Five foods I can’t live without:

Swiss Chalet Chicken, fresh cherries, chocolate chip cookies, orange pekoe tea, milk

Five foods I most definitely can live without: Internal organs, cheesecake (yes, it is true!), beets, lamb, fishy mackerel

How Long a Reader: Definitely over a year, likely longer and enjoy it very much!

How did I get here: via Chocolate & Zucchini

What’s for dinner tonight? The hubby and I enjoyed fresh 3-cheese tortellini with Nana’s home made tomato sauce accompanied by a lovely salad, all very yum.

Name: Lorraine

Location: Manila, Philippines

Age: 32

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Rice, Sinigang (sour tamarind or miso soup), Sashimi, Chocolate, Squid.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: I like everything.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Two years.

How Did You Get Here?: Via TypePad’s featured site, I think.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chicken and Pork Adobo. Yum…

Name: Montse (www.paradayfonda.com)

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Age: 31

Sex: female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: artichokes, bread with tomatoe (Catalan recipe), fish, pasta and soups

Five Foods You Can Live Without: peas, chick peas, fried eggs, beans and brussel sprouts

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 months

How Did You Get Here?: not sure, another blogger

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: spinach

rachel

connecticut (for now)

32

f

5 foods I can’t live without: malai kofta, dark chocolate, brussels sprouts (braised), black beans, avocado

5 foods I can live without: meat, mealy tomatoes, overcooked veggies, white chocolate, cake

how long reading AG: years

how did I get here: from chocolate&zucchini, je pense

dinner tonight: something yummy- we’ll be in NYC!

Name: Sophie

Location: London

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Pizza, onions, prawns, steak, asparagus

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Coconut, anything containing aniseed, bony fish, salt n vinegar crisps, chocolate.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:

About a year I reckon.

How Did You Get Here?:

Obsessive recipe searching on the internet!!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:

We’re out to dinner but tomorrow it’s a roast chicken (of course!)

Name: emily

Location: virginia

Age: 27

Sex: f

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: ice cream

Five Foods You Can Live Without: green peas

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 6 mo

How Did You Get Here?:I don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vietnamese

Name: Ben

Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn

Age: 23

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Sushi, Chocolate, Spaghetti, Burgers, Cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Celery, celery, celery, celery, celery

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Over a year now

How Did You Get Here?: Some sort of best of the web list

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chili Dogs

Name: Carol

Location: Northern Nevada

Age: 47

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Cotswold Cheese, Stilton Cheese, Fresh Homemade Bread, Devon Double Cream Butter, Chilled Vodka.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Anything processed or with additives, Brussels Sprouts, white bread, Spam, Velveta, fish sticks.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a month.

How Did You Get Here?: Google Reader.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: My homemade lasagna.

Name: Christine

Location: Monterey Park, east of Los Angeles

Age: 57

Sex: female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bacon, pasta, tequila, pastrami from The Hat, chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Big Mac only ate once, natto, atole, over-cooked veggies, iceburg lettuce

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since 2006

How Did You Get Here?: baking sheet blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: homemade sun-dried tomato foccacia, pasta, salad, wine

Name: Miriam

Location: Los Angeles, CA/Philadelphia, PA

Age: 21

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Potatoes, cheese, cheesecake, bread and other grains, nuts

Five Foods You Can Live Without: All seafood (except shrimp), any kind of innard (e.g. liver, brains, etc.), cantaloupe, broccoli, bleu cheeses

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a year and a half

How Did You Get Here?: By clicking on various other foodblogs’ favorite food blogs

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Roasted Acorn Sqush Lasagna

Name: e

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Age: 25

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Spinach, Chocolate, Coffee, Cheese, Tortillas

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Cauliflower, Baby Corn, Circus Peanuts, Mint, Cantaloupe

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Three years

How Did You Get Here?: Mike Compitello’s blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: White Bean and Broccoli Rabe soup

Name: Marta

Location: Panama City, Panama

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, fruits, pasta, fresh vegetables, seafood

Five Foods You Can Live Without: hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, turkey, casseroles

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: don’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: sushi

Name: Kim

Location: Portland, OR

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: gelato, beets, fresh baked artisan bread, hot chocolate, coffee, good cheese, fresh fruit, fresh tomatoes dungeness crab

Five Foods You Can Live Without: pistachios, walnuts, top ramen (not really a food methinks), my moms halibut and almonds (again, not really food methinks)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a year

How Did You Get Here?: tuna toast

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: spicy hot dogs from zachs shack and then dessert at st cupcake

Name: Emily

Location: Vancouver, BC

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bacon, rice, tofu, leafy greens, pate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: fast food, junk food, salmon, chocolate, bananas

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years?

How Did You Get Here?: Chez Pim? I can’t even remember anymore.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Taiwanese spicy beef noodles in soup!

Name:Liz

Location:Providence, RI

Age:20

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: spinach, cheese, chewy crusty bread, salmon, udon

Five Foods You Can Live Without: kai seki (japanese classical cuisine), chicken feet, sashimi, foi gras, birds nest soup

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years or so

How Did You Get Here?: a review in a magazine or something

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:spinach salad with raisins, black beans, cucumbers and hummus, a veggie burger

haha, no way you are going to read all of these. say hi to me if you ever get to this one.

Name: Jessica

Location: Yale College

Age: 22

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: CHOCOLATE, refried beans, hummus, apples, cheeeese

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mayonnaise, meat, fast food, eggs (when not baked into things), cereal that has turned mushy in milk

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since last fall

How Did You Get Here?: probably from slashfood?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: the first time I have cooked with fresh food in two months! (I’m a poor college student.) Pasta with fresh broccoli, portabellas and tempeh.

eSA

East Gowanus,Brooklyn NY

36

Yes

Cheese, wine, pasta, bread + fruit

Things that have a long lifespan, are in a can or in plastic

1 year

Surfing for recipes no doubt

Pan fried semi-bonesless quail, rosemary tates and braised leeks.

Name: Emily

Location: Washington, DC

Age: 43

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: avocados, cheese of any kind, potato chips, garlic, quesadillas

Five Foods You Can Live Without: pasta salad, raw onions, cooked green peppers, fake banana-flavor, most beef

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a few weeks

How Did You Get Here?: Guy Kawasaki’s blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: reheated latkes, frozen and saved for me by a friend

Name: Christine

Location: Scottsdale, AZ

Age:31

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:avocados, tomatoes, chili, tortillas, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without:liver, chamomile, monkfish, gizzards, capers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: C & Z

What’s For Dinner Tonight? Cashew chicken and green tea

Name: Andoni

Location: Ataun (a tiny village in the Basque Country, Spain)

Age: 26. Painfully closer and closer to 30s…

Sex: Very few, I’m afraid. (Male)

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Onions, rice, tea (can it be considered as a food?), tuna and of course, CHOCOLATE (!).

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Mint, “cod cheeks” (“kokotxa” in basque/spanish, does it exist elsewhere in the world???), coffee and… I can’t remember anything else.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A couple of months or three.

How Did You Get Here?: I can’t remember.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Probably some “pintxos” in San Sebastian (Spain). You should definitely try them.

Name:

Location:

Age: 41

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: onions and garlic (they nearly always go together!), tomatoes, olive oil, pasta, coffee (hard to believe I’m from the South, isn’t it?)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: I CAN’T THINK OF ANY!! all food is wonderful

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 day

How Did You Get Here?: ruhlman.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: going out in the ATL! tomorrow: who knows? depends on what looks good at the DeKalb Farmer’s Market

Name: Demara

Location: Bowling Green, KY

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five foods I can’t live without: Ice cream, trail mix, coffee, chocolate (preferably in the form of a brownie), whole grain breads and (I know this is six), I never met a vegetable I didn’t like.

Five foods I can live without: pork, beef, canned/processed foods, twinkies (and anything else along that line), fast food

How long have you been reading? probably close to a year

How did you get here? I think I saw you in Parade magazine- Sunday newspaper.

What’s for dinner? Leftover lasagna (homemade of course)

Name: Jodi

Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Age: 34

Sex: F

Five foods I can’t live without: Cheese; bakery bread; tomatoes/onions/garlic (there’s a constant supply of these in my kitchen so they feel like a unit); greens; coffee

Five foods I can live without: Shellfish (sadly, I’m allergic); brazil nuts (again, allergic); cinnamon-raisin bread or bagels; head cheese; tongue

How long I’ve been reading: About six months

How I got here: I can’t remember exactly — perhpas via Meg Hourihan’s blog?

Dinner tonight: Barley risotto with kale and butternut squash

Name: Robin

Location: Kansas City, MO

Age: 47

Sex: F

Five foods I can’t live without: good bread, pasta, bananas, garlic, cheese

Five Foods I can live without: clams, liver, not much else

How long have you been reading? about 3 years; about the time my son started at NYU

What’s for dinner: Whatever my husband makes me

Name: Lukas

Location: Brooklyn

Age: 25

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bleu cheese, bread, asparagus, chocolate, scrambled eggs

Five Foods You Can Live Without: coconut, banana, raisins, baked potatos, poached eggs

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: almost a month

How Did You Get Here?: via friend

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: poached salmon!

Name: Ross

Location: Wash.DC.

Age: 28

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bread, cheese, meat

Five Foods You Can Live Without: asparagus

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: two years? at least back to the pancetta days. bring her back!

How Did You Get Here?: followed some links.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: tomatoe soup and mac and cheese (from tyler florence of the food network)

Name: Amanda (Manders is an old nickname)

Location: Waco, TX (which isn’t as boring as it sounds. And yes, there are actually still people at the Branch Davidian complex)

Age: 22

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Peanut butter, cheese, oranges, 2% milk, or barbecue (hey, honey, this is Texas)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Cauliflower, hard cider (I am, weirdly enough, allergic to it), green peppers, bad tomatoes, and potato salad

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 years? Don’t rightly recall.

How Did You Get Here?: I think from Chocolate and Zucchini.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I have no idea–all I have is cereal and peanut butter at the moment.

Name: Colleen

Location: Boston

Age: 33!

Sex: Female

5 Foods Can’t Live w/o: Spinach, Tofu, Coffee, Cheese and Beer

5 Foods Can Live w/o: Hot Dogs, Chicken Feet, Eggplant, Tapioca and Tequila

Reader for 1 month

Got here by browsing for polenta recipes

Dinner will be improvised and largely consist of rice

Name: Colleen

Location: Boston

Age: 33!

Sex: Female

5 Foods Can’t Live w/o: Spinach, Tofu, Coffee, Cheese and Beer

5 Foods Can Live w/o: Hot Dogs, Chicken Feet, Eggplant, Tapioca and Tequila

Reader for 1 month

Got here by browsing for polenta recipes

Dinner will be improvised and largely consist of rice

Name: Steve

Location: Boston

5 foods I can’t live without: cheese, carrots, peanut butter, beer, and beer

5 foods I can live without: meat, squash, sweet potatoes, eggplant, and figs

I’ve been a reader for about 5 minutes now

I got here by being interrupted by Colleen

I will eat what she puts in front of me and like it

Name:Kim

Location:Canada

Age:Older than 21 and younger than 100

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Chocolate, bread, pasta, diet pop, broccoli

Five Foods You Can Live Without:Bananas, sauerkraut, organ meat, most fish, cooked apple in any form

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:A few years

How Did You Get Here?:Google search for Ina Garten’s Caramel Chocolate Pecan Ice Cream

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:Leftover noodles and homemade tomato sauce

Berkay

Turkey

22

Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Egg, Tomato, Cheese, Yoghurt, Eggplant

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Pork, Dark Chocolate, Okra, Sausage, Salami

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 years

How Did You Get Here?: Google!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Spiced grill chicken and rice with spices

linda

51

female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: NE clam chowder, chocolate,bread, ribeyes, babyback ribs

Five Foods You Can Live Without: sardines, anchovies, lima beans, sweet potatoes,liver

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 20 minutes

How Did You Get Here?: Yahoo, searching for a site to teach me how to start my own food related blog.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: rice cakes with peanut butter and a bowl of chili.

Name: Robin

Location: Victoria, BC, Canada

Age: 19

Sex: F

Five foods I can’t live without: no-salt peanut butter, ruby red grapefruit, grilled BC salmon, dark chocolate, fresh bread

Five foods I can live without: mushrooms, raw onions, mayonnaise, egg salad, oysters

How long I’ve been reading: Over a year!

How I got here: I read about food blogs existing, was intrigued, discovered you and have been faithful ever since

Dinner tonight: spicy black bean soup and chocolates left over from my birthday

Name- Dee

Location- North Shore Long Island

age-58

Sex- yes please

5 foods I can’t live without-cheese, chinese, greek, Italian, Japanese

5 foods I can live without-liver, brussels sprouts, organ meats, head cheese, liver again?

Been reading 2 yrs +

Chocolate & Zucchini or becks & Posh-can’t remember

Name: Mary

Location: New York

Age: Almost 40

Sex: At least once a day.

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: cheese, bread, tomatoes, garlic, wine

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mochi, natto and anything with high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenation (even partial) or red dye (any number)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: A little more than a year

How Did You Get Here?: serendipity

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Homemade pizza (using the no-knead bread for the dough) with homemade tomato sauce (the last batch from last summer), fresh mozzarella and basil. Green salad with shallots and simple vinaigrette. Red wine.

Name: Carol Gillott

Location: Astoria

Age:

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pomegranetes, Artichokes, Tarte Citron, Lobster, ice cream/gelato

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Innards, Fish heads, dumplings, expresso, raw onions,

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: I forget :(

How Did You Get Here?: from another blog…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: salad and salmon..

Name: Maria

Location: Rochester, NY

Age: 22

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Ethiopian Food, Indian Food, Steak, passion fruit, dark chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: hot dogs, sausage, guacamole, sardines, sheep’s eye balls

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Jan 2007

How Did You Get Here?: Through other blogs

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: going out to Indian Buffet (tomorrow I’ll make twice baked potatoes with cheddar, bacon, and broccoli)

Name:Liz

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Age: 31

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: NY Pizza, pulled pork, bread, french cheese, poblano peppers

Five Foods You Can Live Without: tripe, hamburger helper, chicken nuggets, twinkies

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 month

How Did You Get Here?: New York Magazine article about food blogs What’s For Dinner Tonight?:roast pork loin, baked sweet potatoes, kale.

Name:Liz

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Age: 31

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: NY Pizza, pulled pork, bread, french cheese, poblano peppers

Five Foods You Can Live Without: tripe, hamburger helper, chicken nuggets, twinkies

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 month

How Did You Get Here?: New York Magazine article about food blogs What’s For Dinner Tonight?:roast pork loin, baked sweet potatoes, kale.

Name: Katie

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: papaya, bartlett pears, risotto, udon noodles, all manner of vegetable soups

Five Foods You Can Live Without: all red meat, eggplant, olives, figs, raisins

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: recommended by a friend

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: leftover oscar night turkey/vegetable chili

Name: Guillermo Ysusi

Location: Mexico City

Age: 24

Sex: Male

Five (or some more?) Foods You Can’t Live Without: Amaranto with chocolate, chilly, some good meat and fish (salmon), coffee, and some mexican weird stuff like insects.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Grapefruit, tofu, chips, hot dogs, and coconut.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 6 months ago.

How Did You Get Here?: surfing the net.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: nothing yet and probably nothing very special…

Name: lisa

Location: suburban nyc

Age: 36

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: sushi, chocolate, bagels, cheese, smoked fish

Five Foods You Can Live Without: chicken, organ meat, cauliflower, duck, cabbage

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: a long time; at least since you were halfway through law school

How Did You Get Here?: can’t remember

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: leftover pasta fagioli from the Minimalist cookbook

Name: Caroline

Location: Berlin, Germany

Age:27

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Chocolate(min 40%)with Salt & Caramel, Cheese in all variations, good tea, selfmade pasta, red wine, fresh vegetables & fruits

Five Foods You Can Live Without: foie gras, any inner organs, “consistence food” that´s wobbly and slimy,typical fast food and “super lowfat, no sugar, skinny…without flavour-things”

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since 1 month

How Did You Get Here?: Google Reader

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Classic Couscous with vegetables & pomgranate & some Mint Tea

Name: Rene

Location: Singapore

Age: 29

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Rice, Bread, Beef, Tofu, Mushrooms

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Salmon, Celery, Nuts, Low-fat yoghurt, Oats

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: More than a year

How Did You Get Here?: via Kiplog.com

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Breaded Fish Fillets, Miso soup and Rice

Name: Amanda

Location: London

Age: 34

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Coriander, Lime, Sweet Potato, Goats Cheese, Pumpkin

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Sea Urchin, Chicken, Lima Beans, Aubergine, Liquorice

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Two and a half years

How Did You Get Here?: I wish I could remeber.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Spicy peanut sauce, sauted vegetables and rice

Name: Arthur Carvalho

Location:Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

Age: 26

Sex: Male

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Moqueca (brazilian shirmp stew), Risoto, cheesecake, Beens, sushi

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

liver, chocolate, all kind of intestines, fresh oister, olives

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:

6 months

How Did You Get Here?: Luciana´s Froes food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: A salad

Name: Carlo

Location: Philippines

Age: 31

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, steak, pasta, rice, wine

Five Foods You Can Live Without: mayo, innards, raisins, soda, kraft parmesan cheese, “lite” food

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 years

How Did You Get Here?: other food blogs

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Ramen

Name: Silvana

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Age: 31

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: chocolate, dulce de leche,red meat,pasta,fruit

Five Foods You Can Live Without: lamb,snails,peanut butter,tea,cinamon

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: couple of years

How Did You Get Here?: I think David Lebovitz web…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: I don’t know, it’s too early yet.

Name: Jessica

Location: Delaware, US

Age: 20

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: gelato, iced tea, pasta in all its incarnations, chocolate, yellow squash

Five Foods You Can Live Without: brussels sprouts, snails, shrimp, liver, mushrooms

How Long have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since mid-2005

How Did You Get Here: can’t even recall

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: the unspeakable food at my college dining hall. foodie arsenic.

Name:Miriam

Location: Seattle, WA

Age:24

Sex:Femail

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

cheese, wine, chicken, eggs, and fruit

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

beets, lamb, liver, cauliflower, and fish tacos

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1 year

How Did You Get Here?: from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: good question!

Name: Michael M.

Location: NYC

Age: 32

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Cheese, Carrots, French Fries, Apples, fresh baked bread

Five Foods You Can Live Without: maraschino cherries, sugar-loaded cereals, brazil nuts, edible underwear, black truffles (overrated)

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: since its inception, roughly.

How Did You Get Here?:

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Turkey burgers at home, though I unfortunately had to turn down a free dinner at Rock Center Cafe this evening.

Name:Courtney

Location: Florida

Age: 23

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chocolate, cheese, mushrooms, bread, pasta/potatos

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Mayonaise, mustard, baked beans, hotdogs, olives

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 3 months

How Did You Get Here?: link from either another blog, or food porn watch (don’t remember)

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: beef stroganoff

Name: Amy

Location: San Diego

Age:37

Sex: F

Five Foods you can’t live without: Sushi, Avocados, Potatoes, Bread, Cheese

Five Foods you can live without: Pork,

Offal,Black Licorice,Okra, Ice Cream

How long have you been reading Amatuer Gourmet? About a year or so

How did I get here? From some other food blog – can’t recall which one.

What’s for dinner tonight? Chicken Picatta with Capers

Name:Sindy

Location:Fayetteville, NC

Age:40

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:How can I pick just 5??? spinach,lemon, onions,steak, cheese

Five Foods You Can Live Without:okra,tripe,feet (pig, chicken..whatever) Gosh I can’t think of anymore but I am sure there are some.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: about 4 months

How Did You Get Here?:I think from IndyFoody blog ..but maybe slashfood

What’s For Dinner Tonight ? I wish I could say something fancy but just spaghetti tonight.

Name: Naomi

Location: Aspen, CO

Age: 30

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Artichokes, chocolate, soft cheese, pasta, tortillas

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Beets, overcooked asparagus, oysters, papaya and blood sausage

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Three years

How Did You Get Here?: A friend who is a chef was researching blog and pointed me here. We love it!

What’s For Dinner Tonight? Jambalaya

Name: Amanda

Location: Minneapolis

Age: 31

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Avacado, Chewy Bread, Sushi, Mushrooms, Blackberries

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: today

How Did You Get Here?: Smitten Kitten

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Blackened Salmon over carmelized onions, topped with bleu cheese

Name: Judy

Location:Atlanta, GA, USA

Age:58

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: like so many there’s no way to choose

Five Foods You Can Live Without: any organ meat, brussel sprouts, anchovies, caviar, sushi, eggplant

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: brand new

How Did You Get Here?: via Homesick Texan

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: no clue yet

Name: Cheryl

Location: New Jersey

Age: 34

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Ice cream, sugar, cheese, bread, chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: fish, peas, porkchops, cottage cheese, rice pudding

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: today was the first day I found it

How Did You Get Here?: was recommended from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: not sure yet, husband will be making it.

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Age: 45

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bread, cheese, salad greens, ice cream, wine

Five Foods You Can Live Without: lima beans, brussel sprouts, liver, ?, ?

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet? about 2 years

How Did You Get Here? Probably from another food blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight? leftover Beef Bourguignon that I made on Sunday

Name: Chuck

Location: Right here, in front of my computer. Duh.

Age: 30

Sex: Male.

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Sushi (although I rarely get to eat it, it’s always a treat when I do). Spinach. Italian sandwiches with great dry-cured deli-meats. Homemade soups of all kinds. “Fancy” bagged salad mixes.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Pre-seasoned rice mixes. Fake, crappy artificial cake frosting (which is disturbingly common, even when you buy a cake from an official bakery). Canned soups. Pears. Campbell’s sorry attempts at canned chili and stew. (Enough with the corn syrup, jerks!) “Cake” mixes that don’t even ask you to add a perfunctory egg.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Maybe a year or two.

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t remember, but when I find the party responsible, believe you me…

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: A bag of Cheese Doodles. Kill me now.

Location: eastern Connecticut

Age: 27.8

Sex: girl

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: white rice (it goes under everything), small easily-peeled citrus fruit, Thai red curry, coffee, fresh spinach

Five Foods You Can Live Without: bell peppers, raw tomatoes, Miracle Whip, hot dogs, yogurt

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: I don’t know. A year? A little less than that.

How Did You Get Here?: I think Gothamist linked to one of your restaurant reviews.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Leftovers from an attempt at a vaguely French chicken stew. Not one of my great culinary triumphs, but it was edible, and I learned important lessons for next time, mostly involving parsnips.

Name Kaye

Location:Dublin

Age:28

Sex:Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Peppers, olive oil, good bread, real in season tomatoes, aubergines, courgettes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Fish, meat, poulty, dairy, stuffed vine leaves

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a year

How Did You Get Here?:link from another site

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:not sure, propbably noodles and steamed vegetables

Name Shauna

Location:Cayman Islands

Age:24

Sex:Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Conch, Chilis, Chocolate, Stinky Cheese and Plantains

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Smoked Salmon, black olives … that is about it.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About a year

How Did You Get Here?:link from another site

What’s For Dinner Tonight?:pan seared snapper with a watermelon, mint and scotch bonnet salsa and twice-fried smashed green plantains.

Name: Tracy

Location: Newly arrived in Jackson, WY

Age: 36

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: York Peppermint Patties, Dark Roast Coffee, Chicken, Pasta, Salsa

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Liver, gizzards, sardines, vienna sausages, potted meat (girl raised in the South).

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Around 6 months???

How Did You Get Here?: I don’t even remember.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Because my kitchen isn’t fully unpacked, a Bertolli frozen meal – shrimp scampi w/linguine & deli garlic bread. My first “real” meal in the new house is Sunday…mustard chicken & steamed asparagus!

Name: Michelle

Location: Kettering, Ohio

Age: 35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pasta, Tofu, Fresh Greens, My veggie and herb garden, chocolate

Five Foods You Can Live Without: any organ meat and most meat in particular, lima beans, mushrooms, nuts

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Since the beginning of the year

How Did You Get Here?:Through my Google reader labs – one of the few sites NOT blocked by my work proxies!

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: My favorite dish of whole grain angel hair pasta, browned butter and Myzithra Cheese, crisp romaine and baby green salad topped with Asiago cheese and Amy’s Goddess dressing, and for dessert homemade brownie bites.

Name: Melissa!

Location: Huntsville, AL

Age: 26

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Creme brulee, cheese (of any kind!), sweet potatoes, bisque (lobster, crab, crayfish, yum), sweet tea

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Octopus, squash, ham (I know! what’s wrong with me, I dont like ham??), sesame seeds, onion

How Long Have You Been Reading mateur Gourmet?: Probably about half aA year

How Did You Get Here?: I think a link off of Simply Recipes?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Hm… I’m in the mood for a salad with lots of veggies, and some fresh fruit.

Name: Emma

Location: Los Angeles

Age: 24

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Chicken, Garlic, Tea, Roasted Duck, lily bulb

Five Foods You Can Live Without: those small dried shrimp in Chinese cooking (xia mi), horsemeat flavored ice cream (i had the misfortune of losing a bet), oysters, cauliflower, salami

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Around a year

How Did You Get Here?: Through Chocolate&Zucchini, I *think*

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: white bean soup with garlic and prosciutto, grilled ciabatta, baked tomatoes, leftover princess torte

Name: Frostilicus

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Sex: Female, last time I checked

5 foods I can’t live without: Sushi, Spaghetti Bolognaise, Salami, Camembert, Mashed Potato

5 foods I CAN live without: Peas, Brussel Sprouts, Chokos, Really spicy food

How Long have I been reading Amateur Gourmet: About a year and a half, I think.

How Did You Get Here: Honestly, I don’t remember, but I come back periodically to read!

What’s for Dinner Tonight: Chicken Schnitzels and Pasta Bake…

Name:Clint

Location:NorCal

Age:69

Sex:M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Pork ribs, Shrimp, Chicken, snow peas, onions

Five Foods You Can Live Without:

Oatmeal, White bread, Tofu, celery, parsley

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: one month

How Did You Get Here?: looking for a recipe

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: broiled chicken, cauliflower, glazed carrots.

Name: Adriana

Location: Florida

Age: : ) Wouldn’t you like to know? Hi Hi……. Ok 37.

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Organic fruits and veggies : ) Love blueberries, sushi, mygrandma’s gourmet plantain covered picadillo albondigas (family recepie), kosher organic lamb, icecream (homemade,frozen yourt, sorbet, sherbets and on a hot summer day a fresh lime margarita w/ tequila anejo sorbet!)

Five Foods You Can Live Without: hmmm. I’m a pretty good eater, hove not found one I trully despise.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 5 minutes

How Did You Get Here?: through a search for coliflower recipies

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: hmmmm…Coliflower (cream of) most likely unless I am sidetracked by a must try tonight recepie, chayotes (maybe grilled or maybe as a filling for some delicious peppers, greek style Lamb chops, fresh lemonade and expresso home made icecream w/ a hint of kalua!

Name:Nick

Location:Philly

Age:14

Sex:M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Foie Gras, Granola, Bleu Cheese, Roast Chicken, Raw Fish.

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Uncle’s Thanksgiving turkey, papaya, pate, potato chips, chicken mcnuggets.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 4 months

How Did You Get Here?: Searching for restaurant reviews.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Braised shortribs with bordelaise sauce and chantrelles.

Name: Madalyn Brooke

Location: Northern NJ

Age: 17

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Sushi/sashimi, a good loaf of bread, any kind of shellfish, practically all cheeses (ROOM TEMPERATURE — cold cheese is bland), potato pancakes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Gorganzola, processed deli meats, wonder bread, baba ghanoush, lamb

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 3 months

How Did You Get Here?: I honestly have no idea. I stumbled across it in the middle of the night, probably through a google search for something obscure.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vegetable matzo ball soup. It’s like 17 degrees out, perfect soup weather.

Name: Madalyn Brooke

Location: Northern NJ

Age: 17

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: Sushi/sashimi, a good loaf of bread, any kind of shellfish, practically all cheeses (ROOM TEMPERATURE — cold cheese is bland), potato pancakes

Five Foods You Can Live Without: Gorganzola, processed deli meats, wonder bread, baba ghanoush, lamb

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: About 3 months

How Did You Get Here?: I honestly have no idea. I stumbled across it in the middle of the night, probably through a google search for something obscure.

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Vegetable matzo ball soup. It’s like 17 degrees out, perfect soup weather.

Name: Sarah

Location:Brooklyn NY

Age: 23

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:

Artichokes, Oysters, manchego, crab cakes, cheeseburgers

Five Foods You Can Live Without: honey, carrots, squid, sushi, rice crackers

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?:

a year or so

How Did You Get Here?: don’t remember, restaurant reviews maybe?

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: Chicken enchiladas, last night was ratatouille.

Name:Wendy

Location:Seattle

Age:29

Sex:F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without:Tim’s Cascade Chips, Jones Soda, Feta, EVOO, salt (does that count)

Five Foods You Can Live Without:Seriously, I’m willing to try anything once…as long as its not bugs, durian or slimy goo

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: Been lurking for a year, but started commenting recently

How Did You Get Here?:recipe search for Roasted Feta and/or anything with feta and cherry tomatoes..

What’s For Dinner Tonight?WOW, i have no idea yet. Something Asian thats for sure. Probably Pancit Bihon and/or steamed mackerel in a coconut/ginger sauce/soup thing. There is a name for it in Filipino but just too lazy to google it..

I used to think that being a foody was for the birds, but ty, ty ,ty…i am saved.

Name: adkim

Location: dallas, tx

Age: 30

Sex: M

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: just 5? too overwhelming to think about it

Five Foods You Can Live Without: ummmm.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 2 mos and loving it!

How Did You Get Here?: through chez pims blog

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: something out of rick stein’s cookbook.

Name: Tina

Location: Bne, Australia

Age: 35

Sex: F

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: all types of veges, prawns, chicken, eggplant, dessert

Five Foods You Can Live Without: liver, hmmmm.

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: 1st time today!

How Did You Get Here?: google search

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: something with prawns and baby octopus, hence the search on google

Name: Carol

Location: Harper Woods, MI

Age: 40

Sex: Female

Five Foods You Can’t Live Without: bread, avacado, chicken, lemons, fresh pasta

Five Foods You Can Live Without: lima beans, chorizo, okra, tripe…

How Long Have You Been Reading Amateur Gourmet?: three years

How Did You Get Here?: serious eats

What’s For Dinner Tonight?: beef/barley/vegetable soup and grilled cheese. It snowed – so there you go.