Aleksandra Crapanzano

Aleksandra Crapanzano is the author of four cookbooks—including the bestselling Gâteau and, most recently, Chocolat—and she is the recipient of the James Beard Foundation M.F.K. Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, and she has written extensively for most of the major magazines and newspapers, including The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, where, for 15 years, she wrote a food column and contributed numerous articles on beauty, fragrance, design, travel, and sustainability. Aleksandra has spent much of her life in Paris. She now resides in New York City.