Happy Birthday Good. Food. Stories.

Time flies when you’re having fun and Good. Food. Stories. is officially one year old. (GFS, like me, is a Leo.)

This all got started with a simple desire to share our love for food. Casey was regularly answering emails from friends requesting restaurant recommendations and all sorts of cooking advice. I was always snooping around looking for unusual places to eat and an outlet for my never-ceasing curiosity. A few emails were bounced back and forth, we picked a name, bought a domain and our chronicle of delicious conversations began.

Our very first post was spaghetti carbonara, which is especially fitting as we will be cooking carbonara on stage this weekend at New York Botanical Garden’s Edible Garden series. (The weather is going to cool off so please do come see us!)

Though neither of us is ready to quit our day jobs, we’ve each had some incredible opportunities come our way as a result of this site. I got to have lunch with Arthur Schwartz, the Food Maven! I ate an un-godly amount of fried food on a stick at the Minnesota State Fair, and spent the coldest day of the year wandering around Brighton Beach with the incredible photographer, Jessica Scranton. (Who, by the way, shot a recent cover of Smithsonian Magazine.) Oh,and there was that time my new stand mixer exploded.

Casey has seriously honed her already considerable skills. Have you tried her creatively developed, rigorously tested recipes for homemade marshmallow fluff, and homemade cheez whiz? Did you see the lengths the girl went to to test out our camping food recipes for our piece in ReadyMade Magazine?

We’ve also been lucky to have some first-class guest authors. Author Justine van der Leun taught us that it is possible to get sick of Italian food, while Christine Miksis gave us access to the underground Parisian food scene. And lest we not forget C.C., our culinarily challenged contributor, who has filed posts from San Francisco, London, and India.

So what’s next? More dispatches from the trenches of Casey’s kitchen, more Hole-in-the-Wall Files from me and who knows…? We’ve got about a million ideas all looking for the right time and place.

Thanks for all the love this year! We appreciate each and every comment we get and take every single one into consideration.

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