A staff writer for The San Francisco Chronicle's Food section for over eleven years and the author of four cookbooks, Tara Duggan was the recipient of a 2002 James Beard Foundation Award for best newspaper column and was also nominated for a 2003 James Beard Foundation Award. Her decade-long San Francisco Chronicle column, "The Working Cook," ran in over a dozen other North American newspapers -- including The Denver Post, The Chicago Tribune and The Toronto Star. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Food&Wine, California Magazine and Yoga Journal. Tara is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy's chef's training program and the University of California at Berkeley. She lives with her husband and two young daughters in San Francisco.