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Paul Abercrombie »

Organic, Shaken and Stirred

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Paul Abercrombie is a public relations consultant and writer who contributes regularly to Gourmet, Wine Enthusiast, Men’s Health, The Washington Post, National Geographic Traveler, ESPN magazine, and other publications, writing on the topics of food, drink, and travel. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

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Pam Abrams »

Gadgetology

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Pam Abrams is a writer and editor and has worked at several parenting magazines, most recently as vice president and editor-in-chief of Scholastic’s Parent & Child. Her articles have appeared in Parents, O magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, and she is the author of Now I Eat My ABC’s. She recently began teaching cooking classes for kids at her home in Brooklyn, New York.

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Karen Adler »

25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling Fish, 25 Essentials: Techniques for Planking, Weeknight Grilling with the BBQ Queens, The BBQ Queens’ Big Book of Barbecue, Fish and Shellfish, Grilled and Smoked, BBQ Bash

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Karen Adler is a food writer, culinary instructor, and publisher. She is the president and owner of Pig Out Publications, Inc., a specialty barbecue books wholesaler. She has written for numerous publications and has appeared on local and national television and radio. Adler has authored or co-authored more than 14 books with 9 titles specializing in barbecue.She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Jeff Bradley »

Hello, My Name Is…

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Jeff Bradley is the author of five books, has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, and taught writing at Harvard University for eight years. He and his sons, Truman and Walker, live in Boulder, Colorado.
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Lora Brody »

The Cape Cod Table

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Lora Brody is the author of more than 22 cookbooks. Her recipes have been printed in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune, and Brody has appeared on Good Morning America, Today, and Baking with Julia. She divides her time between homes outside of Boston and in Provincetown, MA, at the tip of Cape Cod.

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Lori Collins Burgan »

Moving with Kids

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Lori Collins Burgan is a respected social worker and mother of three. She is the president and CEO of LCB Management Consulting, Inc., which specializes in providing management and program-development assistance to nonprofit agencies around the country. Burgan lives outside of Tampa, Florida.
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Lauren Chattman »

Mom’s Big Book of Cookies, Mom’s Big Book of Baking, Icebox Pies, Icebox Desserts, Icebox Cakes

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Lauren Chattman, a trained pastry chef, is the best-selling author of several cookbooks. She is also the co-author of Roland Mesnier’s From Basic to Beautiful Cakes and Dessert University, which she wrote with former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier. Chattman’s recipes have appeared in Bon Appétit, Redbook, Food & Wine, Cook’s Illustrated, and The New York Times, and she has appeared numerous times on QVC. She lives with her family in Sag Harbor, New York.

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Andrea Chesman »

The Roasted Vegetable, The New Vegetarian Grill

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Andrea Chesman is a freelance writer, regional New England cooking expert, and an authority on healthy vegetarian cuisine. A prolific writer as well as a brilliant cook, she is the author of more than 20 cookbooks and a contributor to several others. She is a contributor to several periodicals including Food & Wine and Fine Cooking, and was a food columnist for Vermont Life magazine for twelve years. She lives in Vermont with her husband and children.

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Ardie A. Davis »

25 Essentials: Techniques for Smoking, 25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling

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Ardie A. Davis is an award-winning barbecue expert and the founder of Greasehouse University—the fabled institution behind the coveted degree of Ph.B., or doctor of barbecue philosophy. (The rigorous “degree program” is now overseen by the Kansas City Barbeque Society.) Sporting a bow tie and bowler hat, Davis judges on the barbecue circuit under the moniker Remus Powers, Ph.B. He was named a Kansas City Barbecue Legend by The Kansas City Star in 2003; he also writes a monthly column in the National Barbecue News and the Kansas City Bullsheet. Ardie lives with his wife, Gretchen, in the Kansas City area.
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Eula Mae Dore »

Eula Mae’s Cajun Kitchen

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Eula Mae Doré (1949-2009) lived and worked on Avery Island, Louisiana, since 1949, first managing the Tabasco Company Commissary and, during retirement, cooking for special personal and press events for the McIlhenny family, owners of Tabasco.
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Jerry Errico »

Cool Waters

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Jerry Errico is a food and advertising photographer and director whose clients include Goya, Kraft Foods, Bear Naked, Absolut, and the Culinary Institute of America. He was the photographer for a number of cookbooks, including Cheese Hors d’Oeuvres, The Sneaky Chef, Quick and Kosher, and The Great American Grilling Book. He lives and works in New York.

For more information, please visit Errico’s website at jerryerrico.com

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Judith M. Fertig »

25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling Fish, 25 Essentials: Techniques for Planking, Prairie Home Cooking, Prairie Home Breads, Weeknight Grilling with the BBQ Queens, The BBQ Queens’ Big Book of Barbecue, Fish and Shellfish, Grilled and Smoked, BBQ Bash, All-American Desserts

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Judith M. Fertig has been nominated for both the James Beard and IACP Cookbook Award and has authored or co-authored more than twenty cookbooks. She has contributed to Gourmet, Food & Wine, Saveur, Country Living, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times and for many years she wrote a weekly column for the Kansas City Star. Trained at La Varenne and the Cordon Bleu, Fertig lives outside of Kansas City, Kansas.

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Hallie Harron »

Not Your Mother’s Fondue, Tomatoes and Mozzarella, Cheese Hors d’Oeuvres

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Hallie Harron is a professional chef and restaurant consultant. She is the author of Cheese Hors d’Oeuvres, the coauthor of Tomatoes & Mozzarella, and has contributed to several other cookbooks and written numerous magazine articles. She spends half of each year leading food and wine tours to Paris and Provence, and lives the other half in Encinitas, California.

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Mary Lou Heiss »

Green Tea

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Mary Lou Heiss is co-owner of Cooks Shop Here, a gourmet food shop in western Massachusetts, where she resides. She travels extensively for business, often giving lectures on tea, tea gardens, world cultures, Asian/world cuisines, and olive oil.

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Jeremy Holt »

Double Take

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Jeremy Holt, a happily married father of one, has worked as a cook or bartender in numerous restaurants. An avid home cook who for many years wrote the food-and-drink blog The Husky Boy, he is currently a pharmacist in Seattle.

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Kathleen Huggins »

El libro esencial para madres lactantes, The Nursing Mother’s Companion, 25th Anniversary Edition, The Nursing Mother’s Companion Breastfeeding Diary, The Expectant Parents’ Companion, Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Revised Edition, The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning, Revised Edition, 25 Things Every Nursing Mother Needs to Know, The Nursing Mother’s Companion

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Kathleen Huggins, R.N., M.S., is the author of several books including the million-plus-copy-selling The Nursing Mother’s Companion. She is a registered nurse, a board-certified lactation consultant, and owner of the maternity shop Simply Mama in San Luis Obispo, California, where she lives.

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Cheryl Alters Jamison »

Texas Home Cooking, The Rancho de Chimayo Cookbook, The Border Cookbook, Sublime Smoke, Smoke and Spice, Born to Grill

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Three-time James Beard Award winner Cheryl Alters Jamison was dubbed “the ... queen of grilling and smoking” by Bon Appétit magazine. The distinguished food and travel writers are widely recognized as authorities on American regional cooking and their numerous bestselling and acclaimed cookbooks offer invaluable lessons in the arts of grilling, smoking, and barbecuing. The New York Times Book Review hailed their work as “stimulating . . . the Jamisons don’t just cook these dishes; they know everything about them.”

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Bill Jamison »

Texas Home Cooking, The Rancho de Chimayo Cookbook, The Border Cookbook, Sublime Smoke, Smoke and Spice, Born to Grill

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Three-time James Beard Award winner Bill Jamison was dubbed “the king ... of grilling and smoking” by Bon Appétit magazine. The distinguished food and travel writers are widely recognized as authorities on American regional cooking and their numerous bestselling and acclaimed cookbooks offer invaluable lessons in the arts of grilling, smoking, and barbecuing. The New York Times Book Review hailed their work as "stimulating . . . the Jamisons don’t just cook these dishes; they know everything about them.”

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Paul Kirk »

Paul Kirk’s Championship Barbecue Sauces, Paul Kirk’s Championship Barbecue

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Paul Kirk has won more than 400 barbecue awards, including seven world championships and the championship of the American Royal Open (the world’s largest barbecue contest). Kirk was dubbed “The Baron of Barbecue” in 1981 by Dick Mais, the “King of Barbecue” and has held the title ever since. He teaches barbecue classes around the country and internationally. His restaurant, R.U.B. (Righteous Urban Barbecue), opened in New York City in 2005 to immediate acclaim. A second R.U.B. location opened in Las Vegas in 2008. Kirk is the author of three barbecue cookbooks and lives in Shawnee Mission, Kansas.
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Sheila Kitzinger »

Tough Questions

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For more information, please visit Sheila Kitzinger’s website at SheilaKitzinger.com

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Tori Kropp »

The Joy of Pregnancy

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Tori Kropp, R.N., has delivered thousands of babies at the prestigious California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, where she has worked for nearly two decades.

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Galina Mariani »

The Italian-American Cookbook

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Galina Mariani is food columnist for Millionaire magazine and formerly was the television spokeswoman for Cooking Light magazine. She and husband John Mariani live outside of New York City in Westchester County.

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John Mariani »

The Italian-American Cookbook

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John Mariani, who has written the authoritative Dictionary of Italian Food and Drink as well as The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, is food and travel columnist for Esquire, restaurant columnist for Wine Spectator, and food columnist for Diversion.

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Christie Matheson »

Salty Sweets, Wine Mondays

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Christie Matheson is the author of Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style and the coauthor of Wine Mondays, The Confetti Cakes Cookbook, Confetti Cakes for Kids, Tea Party, and Vineyard Harvest. She is a regular contributor to publications including The Boston Globe Magazine, Cooking Light, Boston, Yankee, Body + Soul, Yoga Journal, Continental, San Francisco, and DailyCandy.com. For two years she hosted a weekly television segment called “Trend Tracker” on the UPN Morning Show, and she is a frequent guest on the television show Chronicle as well as on Martha Stewart Radio. Matheson lives in San Francisco, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

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Frank McClelland »

Wine Mondays

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Frank McClelland, the James Beard Award winner for Best Chef: Northeast 2007, has been the proprietor of L’Espalier in Boston, Massachusetts, for 20 years. During this time, the restaurant, which features sophisticated, modern New England-French cuisine with an emphasis on artisanal and regional ingredients, has been acclaimed both locally and nationally. It has been named Number One in Boston’s Zagat Survey for ten years running and has been awarded Five Diamonds from AAA for nine years in a row, the only independent restaurant in New England to receive this honor.
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Daniel Miller »

Starting a Small Restaurant—Revised Edition

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Daniel Miller co-founded the Grey Fox Inn, a successful small restaurant in Cambria, California. After a varied career spanning such industries as cutlery sales, beer brewing, newspaper advertising, and computer systems analysis and procurement, he is now semi-retired and lives in Reston, Virginia.
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Debbie Moose »

Fan Fare, Deviled Eggs

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Debbie Moose is an award-winning freelance writer, cooking and writing teacher, and a cookbook author. She was the food editor and columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer for many years. Moose lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband.

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Jane Murphy »

The Great Big Burger Book

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Jane Murphy is a leading publisher of award-winning family media. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop food programming for kids, which resulted in her video Kids Get Cooking. Murphy divides her time between Boston and New York.
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Grace Parisi »

Get Saucy

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James Beard Award-nominated author Grace Parisi is the senior test kitchen associate at Food & Wine and the food and nutrition expert on Simplify Your Life. She is a frequent guest on Today, Good Morning America, and In Food Today. Parisi lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.

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Diane Phillips »

You’ve Got It Made, The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook, The Soup Mix Gourmet, Perfect Party Food, Perfect Basket, Happy Holidays from the Diva of Do-Ahead

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Diane Phillips is an esteemed culinary educator, James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author, product spokesperson, and consultant to the food industry. Fondly known as The Diva of Do-Ahead, she has taught her tremendously popular do-ahead entertaining classes for more than 15 years in cooking schools nationwide, selling out in markets from the Midwest to the Bay Area.
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Brian Preston-Campbell »

Cool Waters

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Brian Preston-Campbell is a professional food stylist and former chef. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, he has brought his talent for food styling to national ad campaigns for such companies as Starbucks, Absolut, Nestlé, Godiva, and Smucker’s. His creative food styling has also appeared in magazines such as O: The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Prevention, and Men’s Health. In addition, he was the food stylist for several books, including The Sneaky Chef and Good Spirits, winner of an IACP Cookbook Award for Food Photography and Styling. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.

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A.J. Rathbun »

Champagne Cocktails, In Their Cups, Double Take, Dark Spirits, Party Snacks!, Party Drinks!, Luscious Liqueurs, Good Spirits, Wine Cocktails

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A.J. Rathbun is the award-winning author of Good Spirits, Dark Spirits, Wine Cocktails, Luscious Liqueurs, Party Drinks!, Party Snacks!, Double Take (coauthored with Jeremy Holt), and the poetry collection Want. Rathbun is a frequent guest on the Everyday Food program (Martha Stewart Living/Sirius satellite radio) and is a contributor to magazines such as Every Day with Rachael Ray, The Food Network Magazine, Real Simple, Eating Well, and Wine Enthusiast. He lives in Seattle, Washington. To learn more, visit his website at www.ajrathbun.com.

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Robin Robertson »

The Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook, Vegan Planet, One-Dish Vegetarian Meals, Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker

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Robin Robertson is a veteran restaurant chef, cooking teacher, and an acclaimed writer. She currently writes, promotes her books, and teaches workshops and classes on her innovative vegan and vegetarian cuisine in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she lives.
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Liz Scott »

The Sober Kitchen

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Liz Scott is a personal chef and caterer specializing in nutritional and dietary needs for recovery from illness and disease, including alcohol and drug dependence. She is a graduate of New York University and the French Culinary Institute in New York, and lives in New Jersey.
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Robert W. Sears »

Father’s First Steps

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Dr. Robert Sears is the father of three sons and has appeared on numerous national television shows to offer advice for new fathers. Visit AskDrSears.com for more about the author.

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Shelley Sikora »

Tomatoes and Mozzarella

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Shelley Sikora is co-owner of the Bobby McGee’s restaurant chain. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Liz Yeh Singh »

The Great Big Burger Book

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Liz Yeh Singh left a very successful career as a TV reporter, anchor, and producer to enter the world of food. She is a freelance recipe tester who has worked for Martha Stewart Living and Redbook. Singh lives in New York City.

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A. Cort Sinnes »

The New Gas Grill Gourmet

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A. Cort Sinnes is the author of more than over twenty books on grilling and gardening. He is the executive director of the National Home Gardening Club and the editor of the club’s magazine, Gardening How-To, as well as a food columnist for National Gardening Magazine and Fishing World. He lives in Calistoga, California.

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Fred Thompson »

Bourbon, Lemonade, Hot Chocolate, Crazy for Crab, Iced Tea

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Fred Thompson is a writer and food stylist who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. He is the author of several cookbooks, including Iced Tea, Lemonade, Crazy for Crab, Barbecue Nation, and Hot Chocolate and writes “The Weekend Gourmet” column for the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thompson is the publisher of Edible Piedmont magazine. He also writes for the magazines Fine Cooking, Wine & Spirits, and Every Day with Rachael Ray and is a popular cooking school teacher. He divides his time between Raleigh and New York City.

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Lucy Vaserfirer »

Seared to Perfection

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Lucy Vaserfirer writes the entertaining and educational food blog Hungry Cravings, an online resource for demystifying complicated cooking and baking techniques and offering delicious, foolproof recipes. She is an adjunct instructor of cooking at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, and has taught home cooks and bakers for years.

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James Villas »

Crazy for Casseroles, Biscuit Bliss

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James Villas is the acclaimed author of many cookbooks and books on food and drink, including a memoir. He was the food and wine editor of Town & Country for 27 years and has written hundreds of articles for magazines including Gourmet and Bon Appétit. He lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York.

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Dede Wilson »

The Birthday Cake Book, Truffles, A Baker’s Field Guide to Cupcakes, A Baker’s Field Guide to Christmas Cookies, A Baker’s Field Guide to Holiday Candy and Confections, A Baker’s Field Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Dede Wilson is the author of several cookbooks. She is a contributing editor to Bon Appétit and is a repeat guest on Today and The View. Wilson is the host of Seasonings with Dede Wilson, a public television cooking show, and she has also appeared on CNN, Food Network, HGTV, and the Discovery Channel. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Victoria Wise »

The Pressure Cooker Gourmet

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Victoria Wise was the first chef at Chez Panisse, is the author of numerous cookbooks, and has written for Food & Wine, New Woman, Williams-Sonoma Taste magazine, and the Los Angeles Times syndicate. She lives in Oakland, California.

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Clifford A. Wright »

Some Like It Hot, Real Stew, Little Foods of The Mediterranean, Mediterranean Vegetables

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Clifford A. Wright is the author of nine cookbooks, including A Mediterranean Feast, winner of the James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award. He writes frequently for Saveur, Fine Cooking, Gourmet, Bon Appétit, and Food & Wine. He lived for many years in Boston, has traveled around the world studying foods and cultures, and now lives in Santa Monica, California.

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Linda Ziedrich »

The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Other Sweet Preserves, The Joy of Pickling, Revised Edition, The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning, Revised Edition

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Linda Ziedrich is a freelance writer and editor and the author of The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Sweet Preserves and The Joy of Pickling, now in its second edition. She is the longtime parenting-book editor for The Harvard Common Press and the coauthor of The Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning. She lives with her family near Scio, Oregon, where she grows most of the fruits and vegetables she pickles, preserves, and otherwise prepares.

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