About the Author

A respected food writer whose work has appeared in Redbook, Cooking Light, and Country Living magazines, LINDA WEST ECKHARDT is the author of sixteen cookbooks, including Bread in Half the Time, which won the IACP's Julia Child Award for Best Book of the Year. With her daughter, KATHERINE WEST DEFOYD, she has written Entertaining 101 (winner of a 1998 James Beard Award for Best Entertaining Cookbook) and Stylish One-Dish Dinners. Both live and write in Maplewood, New Jersey.