Marcelle Bienvenu is an instructor at the John Folse Culinary Institute and author of the Times Picayune column Cooking Creole. She is the author of four cookbooks and co-author of more, including four cookbooks with Emeril Lagasse. With Judy Walker, she acted as co-editor on the James Beard nominated Cooking up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune. She provided the recipes for True Blood: Eats, Drinks and Bites from Bon Temps, a companion cookbook to HBO's True Blood.