Missoula residentGreg Patentwon second place in the Junior Division of the Pillsbury Bake-Off when he was a teenager. He has been a cookbook judge for the International Association of Culinary Professionals as well as a restaurant judge for the James Beard Foundation.nbsp; He writes about food and profiles restaurant chefs for his local paper, theMissoulian, and he co-hosts a show about food on Montana Public Radio. nbsp; About the Author Greg Patentis a food writer and cookbook author whose newest cookbook,A Baker's Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes from America's Rich Immigrant Heritage, which includes a companion DVD, will be published in December 2007, by John Wiley & Sons. His… previous cookbook,Baking in America: Traditional and Contemporary Favorites from the Past 200 Years(Houghton Mifflin), won the 2003 James Beard Award for Best Baking Book of the Year and the World Gourmand Cookbook Award for Best Baking Book in the English Language. He is also the author ofA Is for Apple, co-authored with his wife, Dorothy (Broadway Books, 1999), and numerous other cookbooks. Greg was a regular contributor toCooking Lightmagazine for 13 years and served on its editorial board. For many years, he had his own cooking show, which aired on The Learning Channel, and he has also been a chef in two Montana restaurants.Maureen Faulkneris the widow of Danny Faulkner.nbsp; She lives in California. nbsp; Michael Smerconishis an attorney and host of his own exceedingly popular drive-time radio show in Philadelphianbsp;on CBS Radio's The Big Talker (1210 AM WPHT).nbsp; Henbsp;has made frequent guest appearances on The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor, The Glenn Beck Program, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Scarborough Country, The View, and others.nbsp; He also has regular columns in both the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;