Bio:

Greg Patent

An award-winning cookbook author, food journalist, cooking teacher, and radio host.  His cookbook, Baking in America, a historical look at how America's baking traditions were shaped during the past 200 years, won the 2003 James Beard Award.  Greg has written articles on food for many national magazines, including Saveur, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Real Simple, Gastronomica, Bon Appétit, Cooking Pleasures, and Cooking Light.  In addition to Baking in America, he has written seven other cookbooks.  His most recent title is Montana Cooking (Globe Pequot Press, 2008). In 1990 he published a memoir of his childhood in wartime China called Shanghai Passage (Clarion Books).  It was this remembrance that ultimately resulted in his writing A Baker’s Odyssey.  Greg is extremely proud and grateful that his book has been honored with the Cordon d’Or Academy Award.  Greg lives with his fabulous wife, Dorothy, in Missoula, Montana.  Please visit Greg at his website: www.gregpatent.com.