Belinda Hulin (Atlantic Beach, FL) is a Louisiana-born author who has been writing about food for more than twenty years. She was Food Editor at the "Florida Times-Union" for five years, and she now works as a freelance writer for such major publications as "Cosmopolitan, Time, " and "BusinessWeek". She is also a member of the Association of Food Journalists Ms. Hulin first learned the joys of soothing harvest-vegetable soups and spicy fricassees while cooking alongside her Cajun mother and grandmothers, and her father s chili - prepared in giant batches with help from all family members - was a thing of beauty. She is the author of "The Everything Fondue Party Book" and "The Everything Pizza Cookbook". Ms. Hulin lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida, where she s acquired a taste for Brunswick Stew and Minorcan Conch Chowder.