Roy F. Guste, Jr. is a renowned chef and an authority on the cuisines of Louisiana. He studied French cuisine in Paris and returned to New Orleans, where for many years he was the proprietor of Antoine's Restaurant. He is the author of Antoine's Restaurant Cookbook, The Restaurants of New Orleans, Louisiana Light, and Gulf Coast Fish: A Cookbook. An accomplished photographer as well, he photographed and wrote The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carre.