Julia M. Pitkin has edited and created more than twenty cookbooks that have sold well over two million copies worldwide. Among these are two comprehensive inn cookbooks, Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook, Great Cooking with County Inn Chefs, Old-Fashioned Country Cooking, Cooking for Diabetes, Blue Plate Special: The American Diner Cookbook, and Miss Daisy Cooks Light. A lifelong resident of Nashville, Tennessee, she is Editor-in-Chief of Cumberland House Hearthside Books.