Michael Krondl is a chef, food writer, and author of The Taste of Conquest, Around the American Table: Treasured Recipes and Food Traditions from the American Cookery Collections of the New York Public Library, and The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook. He has published articles in Good Food, Family Circle, Pleasures of Cooking, and Chocolatier, and has contributed entries to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. He lives in New York City.