I was fortunate to receive phenomenal on-the-job training with my mentor Anne Willan, owner of La Varenne. Anne is a prolific cookbook author who taught me the finer points of research, recipe development and recipe testing, skills that I use virtually every day. With her, I worked on the first 10 titles of the popular Look & Cook cookbook series, the culinary history Great Cooks and Their Recipes, the elegant Château Cuisine cookbook, and La France Gastronomique, a culinary study of France.

The more recent books I've worked on are linked below. They include my Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series of single-subject books highlighting key regional foods and five Best Places® cookbooks for which I collected restaurant recipes from British Columbia to Northern California. There are also a number of other books I've contributed to in a variety of ways, as writer and/or editor.