Not Derby Pie is food52 user Rivka Friedman’s three-year-old blog, and her relief from a busy job as a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare consultant. Food is, she says, her hobby and her one love. Unfortunately, it doesn’t pay the bills.

Annouchka Engel-Vaillancourt is the elegant, bejeweled brunette behind the food and lifestyle blog, CulinistA.

Winnie Abramson embraces an open, eco-minded approach to food and cooking on her blog, Healthy Green Kitchen.

Claudia Young is a born-and-bred New Yorker living in Nashville who started her blog, cook eat FRET, on a whim. The story involves scallops.

Writer, producer and food52 user Rebecca Lando dreamed up the cooking web series Working Class Foodies when she was studying film at NYU and had just $30 a week for food. Her inspiration: the Union Square Greenmarket.

Alyssa Shelasky, the writer behind the hilarious blog Apron Anxiety, used to be a celebrity writer and Manhattan "It" girl. But after she met and fell in love with former Top Cheffer, Spike Mendelsohn, she went from living on brown rice, Zone bars and Pinkberry to learning to cook and appreciate food.

Piece of Cake blog is Shauna Sever Webb’s outlet for indulging her sweet tooth cravings.

The Dog’s Breakfast is the playfully named eight-month-old blog from Montreal-based Rob Lee and David Rollins.

Gabriela’s Kitchen was created a year ago when Gabrielle Marie Lopez, or Gabriela as she is known in Spanish and to her family, received some vanilla beans, a jar of olives, and a blog (all built and ready to go!) from her boyfriend Alex.

Elina Nudelman started The Naked Beet blog a year ago, inspired by her favorite soup (borscht) and her love of cooking and entertaining.