Willan, Anne

ANNE WILLAN is one of the world s authorities on French cooking with more than fifty years of experience as a teacher, cookbook author and food columnist. She founded Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in 1975. Her most recent books are "The Cookbook Library: The Cooks, Writers and Recipes that Made the Modern Cookbook", with her husband, Mark Cherniavsky, which won the Jane Grigson Award for outstanding literary writing, and "The Country Cooking of France", which took two James Beard Foundation Book Awards. Willan was inducted into the James Beard Foundation s Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2013 for her