The author, Joanne Sandlin, is a retired Founder/Director/Teacher of Westside Recreation and Parks Preschool, Taft, California, having earned an Early Childhood Education degree from Taft and Bakersfield Colleges. She also taught developmentally disabled adults at Westside Training Center in Taft, CA. She volunteered countless hours at Taft and Tehachapi libraries, telling stories to delighted children and writing a column, "The Library Corner," for the Tehachapi News. In addition to writing recipe columns in two newspapers for 16 years and publishing a cookbook The Front Burner with family an...