s a cookbook author, freelance writer, media consultant and co-founder of The Cook's Garden, America's premiere source for the kitchen gardener, I'm here to inspire you. My goal is to spark your appetite and help you add beauty and excitement to your garden, with a color range of vegetables and flowers that are guaranteed to expand your palette.

With over 25 years experience, my cooking classes, culinary tours, book signings and lectures are geared to help you make the right choice and enjoy planting and cooking from your own cook's garden. I've spoken to garden clubs and botanic gardens from coast to coast on a variety of life style topics, and am available as a media consultant to small business clients.

My cookbook From the Cook's Garden, has been featured in Horticulture, Martha Stewart Living, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Fine Gardening and other national publications. From the Cook's Garden cookbook was featured in the New York Times book review, Publisher's Weekly, Baltimore Sun, Burlington Free Press and many others.

To develop professional culinary skills, I've trained with Marcella Hazan in Italy and with Darina Allen at Ballymaloe in Ireland. My articles are frequently published in the state-wide Vermont Sunday Magazine, Vermont Life, Vermont Magazine, and Organic Gardening, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, and other national publications. I've been a guest on PBS-Victory Garden and Gardening by the Yard as the "Baroness of Basil", and CBS-TV affiliates nationwide.

My food and garden related memberships include of the Vermont Fresh Network, the Northeast Organic Farmers Association, Association of Culinary Professionals and the Garden Writers Association and Slow Food International, American Cheese Society Vermont Cheese Council, and Les Dames Escoffier.

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