Lisa Messinger

Award winning journalist and cookbook author Lisa Messinger has been writing the nationally syndicated Cook's Books column for Copley News Service for seven years (as well as many other syndicated food cover stories regarding her on-site visits with the world's top chefs; she is one of just five CNS columnists and the only food writer who travels the world for them). She has also penned four food books, including the 100,000-selling cookbook The Tofu Book: The New American Cuisine (Avery/Penguin Putnam) and has appeared on more than 75 television and radio shows nationally, including CNN, Live With Regis and two appearances on the Sally Jessy Raphael Show. Among other distinctions, she has won first place in food writing nationally from the Association of Food Journalists, an organization that includes almost all newspaper and magazine food editors and writers in the country.