Blog birthdays come and go without any acknowledgment on the site, but I couldn’t let this milestone pass without some fanfare. I can’t believe I’ve pressed the “Publish” button 1,000 times! And I can’t believe people actually read this stuff!
I launched this site one summery day back in August 2006 while bored to tears at work. I was performing some heavy duty statistical analysis at the time and desperately needed an outlet for my creativity. Little did I know that writing about my food adventures at home and out on the town would afford me so many awesome opportunities and introduce me to so many fun and fascinating people. This has been a seriously amazing ride, and I hope to keep on bloggin’ till I’m gray and senile.
In celebration of the big 1-0-0-0, a retrospective is in order! Of the 999 posts that preceded this one, these are the most viewed recipe and restaurant posts of all time. Thank you for taking the time to read Gastronomy and I hope you’ll enjoy this trip down memory lane.
Eating Out
3. Vietnamese Fried Chicken at Su Su
4. Bánh Bò & Bánh Tiêu – Vietnamese Doughnut Stuffed with Spongy Cake
5. Bánh Cam – Vietnamese Doughnuts
6. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice, and Chicken Fingers
7. How to Get a Reservation at The French Laundry
8. Auntie Em’s Red Velvet Cupcakes
9. The French Laundry – Yountville
10. Eating in Bangkok: Part III
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Eating In
1. Inside-Out Carrot Cake Cookies
2. Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting
3. Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing
5. Bánh Bột Lọc – Vietnamese Dumplings with Shrimp and Pork
6. Bò Kho – Vietnamese Beef Stew
7. Jim ‘N Nick’s Cheese Biscuits
8. Thịt Kho – Caramelized Braised Pork and Eggs
9. Cookin’ with Coolio: Strawberry Hills Banana Muffins Forever
I love that Coolio’s muffins made the top 10!
I hope to be reading Gastronomy Blog until I’m old and grey and senile!
Congrats on this exciting milestone! 🙂
Congrats on your 1000th post! That is truly an amazing feat. I really enjoy reading your posts they are so fun and entertaining. Keep them coming and I’ll keep on reading!
Congratulations. Do you have a personal favorite that you’ve written?
Congratulations Cathy! 1,000 posts is quite a milestone..in less than 5 years!
Congrats! That is a huge milestone.
Yay!! Congratulations!!
Congratulations!!!
Congrats Cathy! Your blog is one of my favourites and I hope to keep reading about your food adventures.
Congrats to my Fav Food Blogger! A Thousand…and you were so young when you started! 😉
Congrats my friend! To a thousand more!
Congratulations on an amazing achievement! I started reading you when I was already old and gray. Senility is just around the corner.
CONGRATS KATHY!! i love your blog, your recommendations came in handy during my 2009 trip to vietnam. looking forward to more delicious goodness.
Congratulations! I absolutely love your blog – it is amongst my favorites!
Congratulations! 1000 posts! That is insane!
Congratulations! 🙂
I want to thank you and the astronomer ( and the rest of your family) for sharing all your eating adventures. My favorite posts are the ones from when you lived in Vietnam. The insiders view of the local food was breath taking and hunger pang inducing.
Best wishes to you and I can not wait ot see the 2000 post retrospective.
Congrats Cathy. To 1000 more!
congrats!!! ill cya @ the 100 g mark!!!
we will celebrate this weekend!!!
Congrats Nhu! You’ve come a long way from our days of Cathy and Jones and the LamLogs.
Congratulations Cathy! Here’s to thousands more! 🙂
Congrats on 1000 posts – I’m so grateful I stumbled upon your blog. I always look forward to reading about your meals and living vicariously through your gorgeous photographs.
wowzers lady! 1,000! that’s like more fingers than i can count! congrats cathy for being such a consistent, dedicated blogger. love your photos and your opinions about food.
1000!!! Yay!!! LOVE GASTRONOMY!! Congrats! And THANKS!!
Congratulations! I think the biggest milestone of this blog is how it brought us together to become friends! =P Your posts really help me when I’m homesick, and also showed good places to eat while I was in Vietnam. You’re super super awesome. Here’s to another 1000 posts!
congratulations!
Congratulations on reaching this milestone! I enjoy visiting your site and drooling over your adventures. Your restaurant reviews also came in handy on a trip to San Diego, so thank you! I wish you many, many more years of expanding your (and our) culinary horizons and blogging.
Congrats on the big 1 grand G! That’s quite an accomplishment.
Dang! I’m still trying to make it to 50 😀
Congrats and I’ll see you at 2K!
Congrats! xo!
Congratulations, Chi Nhu!!! We hope you can get up to 1,000,000 posts!!!
Love,
Your Favorite Cousins ;o), Megan :oD & Maddie :oP
ps: Look up Megan and Maddie in the search box!!
Woweee, that’s quite a milestone! Congratulations, I’m looking forward to following your continuing gastronomical adventures
1000 posts! Wow, congrats!