LAURA CALDER is the author of French Food at Home, French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating and Dinner Chez Moi: The Fine Art of Feeding Friends. She wrote and hosted seventy-eight episodes of the Food Network Canada series French Food at Home, which also airs on Cooking Channel USA and worldwide, and which won a James Beard Award for best food television show in a fixed location. She judged for two seasons on Recipe to Riches and has hosted a number of specials. New projects are in the works.