Sara Dickerman is the author of Secrets of Great Second Meals, Bon Appetit: The Food Lover’s Cleanse, and Dried & True. She cooked in restaurants for many years, starting in California at Campanile and Chez Panisse before moving to Seattle. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Saveur, Seattle magazine, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and Slate, for which she won a James Beard Award. She has also served as the restaurant critic for The Stranger and the food editor of Seattle magazine, and she has been a regular guest on her local NPR affiliate. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.