An award-winning food writer, cookbook author, and cooking video personality, Melissa Clark writes about cuisine and other products of appetite. She earned an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University. She’s won two James Beard Foundation awards and two IACP awards (International Association of Culinary Professionals), and her work has also been selected for the Best American Food Writing series. In 2012 she joined the staff of the New York Times, where she writes the highly popular Food Section column, A Good Appetite and has starred in over 100 cooking videos. She is a frequent guest on NBC’s The Today Show and The Rachel Ray Show, and is a regular guest host on APM’s The Splendid Table. In addition, Clark has written 42 cookbooks, many of them in collaboration with some of New York’s most celebrated chefs. Her forthcoming cookbook, Dinner In French, explores French cuisine with her characteristic Brooklyn je ne sais quoi.