About the Author

Bev Shaffer is an author, food writer, and culinary instructor, as well as the director of Mustard Seed Market and Café Cooking Schools in Akron and Solon, Ohio. She has developed more than eight thousand recipes on a wide variety of subjects, including seafood, sides and grains, and desserts, and has received many national and local commendations and more than 120 cooking awards.

Chef Shaffer has made over seventy appearances on all four major Cleveland networks and is the producer and host of an award-winning cable show. Her weekly radio spot on Akron, Ohio’s WAKR’s “Morning Drive Time” program features quick and easy seasonal recipes with tips. She is the coauthor of the cookbook No Reservations Required and a columnist (“Ask Bev”) for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine.