Beth Henspergeris the author of 22 cookbooks, about half books on bread and baking and half books on how to cookwithpopular countertop appliances. They include The Bread Bible, winner of a James Beard Cookbook Award, andseveral volumes in the best-selling Not Your Mother's series, includingNot Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two,Not Your Mother's Microwave Cookbook,andthe blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. She has twice been nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award. Hensperger previously wrote a San Jose Mercury News food column for twelve years, Baking with the Seasons, and has contributed to dozens of cooking and lifestyle magazines, such as Food & Wine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Veggie Life, Cooking Light, Working Woman, Victoria, Prevention, and Family Circle.