Linda West Eckhardt

Linda West Eckhardt is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen cookbooks, including Entertaining 101, winner of a James Beard Foundation Award in 1998; Bread in Half the Time, winner of the IACP Julia Child Cookbook Award for Best Book of the Year; and the bestselling Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Katherine West DeFoyd, the coauthor of Entertaining 101, lives in South Orange, New Jersey.