Aki Kamozawa is the coauthor of Ideas in Food and Maximum Flavor; in 2011, she and her husband, H. Alexander Talbot, won an IACP Award for Instructional Culinary Writing with Recipes. They are the co-owners of Curiosity Doughnuts and run a culinary consulting business working as recipe developers and culinary troubleshooters for chefs and food companies from their home base in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.