About the Author

Dana Jacobi has written 10 best-selling cookbooks, including The Essential Best Foods Cookbook, 12 Best Foods Cookbook, Food Made Fast: Vegetarian, and Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Healthful Cooking, which was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award. As an instructor and lecturer, Dana teaches recreational and professional classes. She has presented to private and trade audiences as diverse as Culinary Institute of Amercia chefs, specialty food store owners, Harvard business school alumi, and nuns. She lives in New York City.