It’s a decent bet that if you have a cookbook shelf, one of Anne Byrn’s books is most likely on it. She’s authored 14, including the NYT-best selling The Cake Doctor, which was recently named No. 18 on Southern Living’s list of the 100 most important cookbooks of our time. Her newest book, Skillet Love, takes on one of my favorite cooking tools -- the cast iron skillet -- so we sat down with her dog Ella by her side to chat about a life lived through cookbooks. If anything, she’s more curious about cooking and the history of recipes today than when she started, and it was hard to find a place to stop our chat, even when Ella got restless with her collar jingling.