| Author Profiles
Monica Bhide
Cooking has been a lifelong passion for Monica Bhide, who began experimenting in the kitchen at age ten and specializes in Indian cuisine. A graduate of several cooking courses in her native India, Bhide is an accomplished caterer and award-winning freelance food writer who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and several regular columns, including DeliciousIndia.com. Bhide recently released a second recipe collection, The Everything Indian Cookbook, in 2004. Born in India, Bhide has been living in the United States since 1991, which has helped her to understand how to adapt Indian cooking to North American preferences.
Sue Carroll
Sue Carroll was among the first bed & breakfast proprietors in the country. A former teacher, she has been a professional innkeeper / chef since 1971, and has become an expert on Victoriana and house restoration and decorating techniques as well as breakfast, brunch, and tea entertaining. Sue Carroll’s prize-winning recipes have appeared in Bon Appétitand numerous travel magazines. She has demonstrated menu highlights and shared cooking tips on local and national television, including the popular PBS series Inn Country USAand HGTV's At Home with Kitty Bartholomew.
Marcy Claman
A writer, graphic designer, and true breakfast lover, Marcy Claman has been enjoying the unforgettable home cooking, unique ambiance, and warm hospitality of B&Bs ever since she and her husband honeymooned at their first B&B in Cape Cod some 17 years ago. Claman has demonstrated recipes from her best-selling RISE & DINE cookbook series on national television, including Canada AM and Canadian Living TV.
Laurel Keser
Award-winning freelance writer Laurel Keser combines more than 10 years of writing experience with a lifelong passion for food. Her freelance work includes a cookbook review column for a local dining and entertaining guide as well as freelance food and garden articles for New Jersey's Courier Post newspaper and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Food Forum newsletter. Keser is currently writing an herb column for New Jersey-based Cuizine magazine. Her own recipes have been published in The Herb Companion magazine. She is a member of IACP, HAS (The Herb Society of America), and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. She currently resides in Lindenwold, New Jersey.
Veda Nugent and Marrett Green
Veda Nugent has been involved in Jamaican cooking as a chef, restaurateur, and cooking instructor for more than four decades. She operated two successful Caribbean restaurants in Ottawa, Ontario, and catered for numerous functions at foreign embassies and at Parliament Hill. Along the way she appeared on a number of local TV cooking shows and taught countless classes on Jamaican and African cuisine. Nugent currently resides in Florida. Marrett Green, Veda’s son, spent seven years helping Nugent operate her restaurants. He then studied broadcast journalism and became an award-winning television newscaster. Nugent and Green have demonstrated recipes from their cookbook on such national TV shows as Canada AM (CTV), Vicki Gabereau Show (CTV), and Canadian Living TV (Life Network).
Stuart Nulman
A lifelong Montrealer, trivia whiz, and a former contestant on the popular quiz show Jeopardy,Stuart Nulman is a book and film expert on Montreal’s CJAD 800 AM radio station. A graduate of Concordia University’s communications and journalism program, Nulman has also worked as a research assistant for CBC-TV’s Newswatch, as a newspaper columnist and literary editor for The Suburban and Weekly Herald newspapers, and as a technical editor for CAE. Nulman has also helped research several books, including Tommy Schnurmacher’s The Gold Digger’s Guide (1985). In 1991, Stuart began his long association with the world-renowned Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival, including researching and developing exhibits for its Museum of Humour. Stuart has discussed his book on Montreal television and radio, including This Morning Live, Focus on Business, Chai Montreal, CFCF-TV Noon News, CJAD's Al & Era and Andrew Carter shows, and CBC's Homerun.
Paris Permenter and John Bigley
A husband-and-wife team of travel writers and gourmet food aficionados, Paris Permenter and John Bigley cover resorts and other North American destinations for numerous magazines and newspapers. They have written more than 10 books, including the award-winning cookbook, Texas Barbecue, and contributed to Fodor’s Southwest B&B guide. When not away on assignment, they live in the Texas Hill Country near Austin.
Michael Smith
A 1991 honors graduate of the Culinary Institute of America (New York), award-winning author / chef Michael Smith has worked in elite kitchens in New York, London, Colorado, California, Texas, the Caribbean, and Venezuela. He has worked under David Bouley, Larry Forgione, Paul Sartory, and Albert Roux. In 1992, Smith took over as chef of The Inn at Bay Fortune on Prince Edward Island and turned it into a culinary destination. He is currently chef emeritus of the Inn. Smith also owned and operated Maple, a critically acclaimed restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for several years.
In 1999, Smith's first cookbook Open Kitchen won a prestigious Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award.
Smith currently hosts two national TV shows on Food Network Canada: The Inn Chef and Chef at Large. In 2002, Smith received a prestigious James Beard Award for Best National Television Cooking Show or Special. Smith has also appeared on Burt Wolf’s award-winning A Taste For Travel, Food Network's In Food Today, and Canadian Living TV. He has been written up in Food & Wine, Victoria magazine, USA Today, The New York Times,The Boston Globe, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Montreal Gazette, Maclean’s, Homemakers, Canadian Living, Chatelaine, and President’s Choice Magazine, to name a few.
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