TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY and to celebrate the first day of my 26th year, I am sharing a photomontage of my favorite things in the world. Some of these, of course, are food – I made a whole Sweet & Salty Cake by Baked last night! – but many are friends who liked me even before I made funny snack videos. After all, what’s the point of mealtime if not for the people who we share it with?

Digging through old photos makes me so happy. That, and making Stupidly Simple Snacks, of course. My next one will be with celebrated pastry chef Pichet Ong, who I recently helped to launch a blog: Confessions of a Sugarholic!

Due to new work projects for the likes of Midtown Lunch, VendrTV, photographer Chia Messina and other excellent people/companies, I haven’t had the chance to update Amy Blogs Chow as often as I’d like. While I realize you guys are super understanding, I want to thank you for returning each time I resurface. We don’t see each other often so I cherish every time that we do. I hope to meet many more of you this year and to see some old best friends again. Tall order? Perhaps. But they wouldn’t call it a birthday wish if it didn’t come true! amy • march 22, 2010

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