I initiated this project to tie into Ms. Patti’s enormously successful dessert line. I was responsible for developing the book’s 75 that related to family anecdotes.
The talented Lisa Oz is a fantastic cook as well as a television personality/producer. She and I cooked together to hone her favorite self-created recipes.
For Nadine Redzepi’s first cookbook (she is the wife of Danish chef René Redzepi), I was asked to Americanize and test the recipes, as Nadine is based in Copenhagen.
The charming couple behind the bestseller Extra Virgin brought me in to help them craft their second book, which talks about living (and cooking) like a Tuscan wherever you are.
Marla Heller, the top exponent of the DASH Diet, and I met at a food conference over a decade ago, and never dreamed that we would write a cookbook together one day.