Monica Bhideis an engineer turned much-praised writer whose work has appeared inThe New York Times,The Washington Post,Food & Wine,Bon Appétit, andTown & Country; she has published two previous Indian cookbooks,The Everything Indian CookbookandThe Spice Is Right. Monica was born in India and moved to the United States in 1991; she currently resides in the Washington, D.C., metro area with her husband and young sons. Visit her website, www.monicabhide.com.
Mark Bittman has won IACP Julia Child Awards for his books Fish and How to Cook Everything, which has sold over 400,000 copies. He writes "The Minimalist" column for The New York Times, and his food writing appears in major publications nationwide. He is coauthor of the James Beard Award-winning Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef (Broadway Books, 1998).