Alice Medrich

Alice Medrich is the winner of five James Beard Foundation Awards, most recently Best Baking & Dessert Book of the Year for her tenth cookbook, Flavor Flours (Artisan Books, November 2014). She received her formal training at the prestigious Ecole LenOtre in France and is widely credited with popularizing chocolate truffles in America. Medrich writes Food52's Rogue Baking Tips column and teaches online baking courses at Craftsy.com. She lives in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Seriously Bitter Sweet (a complete revision of her 2003 IACP-prize-winning BitterSweet), Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts, Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies, Pure Dessert, and Chocolate Holidays.