Linda West Eckhardt


Linda West Eckhardt is an American culinary writer, author of 18 books, including The Only Texas Cookbook, American Gumbo, Bread In Half The Time, and Entertaining 101. Her books have won James Beard and Julia Child awards. She was the first food editor of Texas Monthly. Founder and Editor/Publisher of Everybody Eats News, The Online Newspaper that monitors the sustainable food movement http://www.everybodyeatsnews.com., and a contributor to today.com http://www.today.com.

Biography

Raised in Hereford, Texas, Linda West took a B.S. in foods and nutrition at the University of Texas, and wrote the "Dining In" column for Texas Monthly, while raising a family in Houston. In the early 1980s she moved to Menlo Park, California, where she completed an M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University, then to Ashland, Oregon, where she began writing on cooking, dining, and travel, and was a columnist for The Oregonian. In the late 1990s, she moved to Maplewood, New Jersey, where she has collaborated on several books with her daughter, Katherine West Defoyd. She is an independent consultant on food and travel.

Published works