Rick Rodgers is an award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, food writer, and radio and television guest chef whose infectious love of good food reaches countless cooks every day. He has written over thirty cookbooks on a wide range of subjects, including the best-selling Thanksgiving 101 and Fondue and IACP Cookbook Award nominees The Carefree Cook and Kaffeehaus. Rodgers is the author or coauthor of more than then Williams-Sonoma titles, among them Essentials of Roasting and American in the best-selling Collection series. His recipes have appeared in Food & Wine, Cooking Light, and Fine Cooking, and he is a frequent contributor to Bon Appetit magazine.