Nancie McDermott is a food writer and cooking teacher, and the author of ten cookbooks. Her passion is researching and celebrating traditional food in its cultural context, and her beloved subjects are two seemingly different places with much in common: the cuisines of Asia and of the American South. Nancie gained her Southern kitchen wisdom as a Piedmont North Carolina native, and her Asian culinary research commenced soon after college, when she was sent to northeastern Thailand as a Peace Corps volunteer.
She has written on food and travel for numerous publications including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, Cooks Illustrated, Every Day with Rachel Ray, Family Fun, Food Arts, and the Los Angeles Times. Nancie is the author of ten cookbooks and a national television food celebrity