Paula Wolfert

Paula Wolfert is an expert on Mediterranean food and the author of seven other cookbooks, including Mediterranean Cooking, The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen, and The Cooking of Southwest France. Her work has received the Julia Child Award, the M. F. K. Fisher Award, the James Beard Award, the Cook's Magazine Platinum Plate Award, and the Périgueux Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2008, the James Beard Foundation inducted her work into the Cookbook Hall ofFame. A regular columnist for Food & Wine magazine, Wolfert lives in Sonoma, California.