Thanks first to Michael Sand and my editor, Holly Dolce, for their enthusiasm for this project and their confidence in my work. I’m also grateful to their colleagues at Abrams, especially Sarah Massey, Mary O’Mara, and the book’s designer, Deb Wood. Special thanks to Jane Bobko, my copyeditor, and Leda Scheintaub and Regina Castillo, my proofreaders: I know from good copyediting and proofreading, and their work was absolutely stellar.
Warmest thanks go to my agent, Leslie Stoker, who must be the most patient and helpful representative a writer could hope for. It’s because of Leslie and her work that I have started referring to myself, when asked, as “a cookbook author [period]” rather than “a sort of freelancer, I guess [question mark].”
