H. Alexander Talbot is the coauthor of Ideas in Food and Maximum Flavor; in 2011, he and his wife, Aki Kamozawa, 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.