To hundreds of thousands, Laurel Robertson has become a guiding spirit whose kitchen symbolizes whole-food cookery at its best. She is the author of Laurel’s Kitchen, a vegetarian cookbook first published in 1976 that was a major contributor to the increasing awareness of vegetarian eating in the United States. With her co-contributors, including Carol Flinders, Bronwen Godfrey, and Brian Ruppenthal, she has written several more Laurel’s Kitchen books, including The Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book, Laurel’s Kitchen Recipes, and Laurel’s Kitchen Caring.

Carol L. Flinders is an author known for The New Laurel's Kitchen, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, The Value of Belonging, and At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst.

Brian Ruppenthal is the author of The New Laurel's Kitchen.