Today, I am 4

4 years.

1340 posts.

1.4 million hits.
4 cameras.

1 Yellow Kitchen, soon to be green, hopefully.

5 Sunday Suppers.

20 3 pound boxes of Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt.

So many great readers.

and a few meanies (but the meanies make us better)

4 jobs.

Somewhere around 850 shifts waiting tables.
Somewhere around 12,500 people waited on!

0 invites to be on Open Line when discussing restaurants

Hundreds of meals eaten.
Probably 100 or so restaurant reviews.

Columbus, San Francisco, Napa, Orlando, Louisville, Cincinnati. And a few airports in between.

40 episodes of In Season with Lisa.

28 loaves of no-knead bread.

Probably 100 pasta recipes.

Tons of recipes with nothing but "good extra virgin olive oil," sea salt, and freshly cracked black pepper.

3,105 Tweets.

Thousands of unanswered emails. *sigh*

and all I have to say is 

Thank You.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  You readers mean more to me than you will ever know.  Sometimes it's strange to think there are all these people out there who I consider my friends and have never met! Or I meet someone and say OH! You're so and so on Twitter!  Or "you were one of my first commenters!!!" 

I am constantly humbled by how awesome my readers are.  I love that so many of you are in Columbus, together, we are building this great food community.  

Of course, I love all of you in other cities and countries around the world.  It's amazing how much smaller the world seems when you have readers in Argentina and Australia.  It's so great to be in the middle of winter here in gray Ohio and look up an Australian food blog and instantly feel better (and a bit jealous). 

Here's to many more. 

XOXOXOXOXOXOX

Lisa the Waitress.