Georgeanne Brennan is the author of more than 30 cookbooks and gardening books, and is the recipient of both a James Beard Award and of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award. She has written extensively about Provence and France where she has had a home since 1970, where she raised goats and made goats milk cheese, an adventure which she wrote about in her food memoir, A Pig in Provence. She has founded a product line, La Vie Rustic and has published La Vie Rustic – Cooking and Living in the French Style (Weldon-Owens 2017). She lives in Northern California, USA.

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