Often amusing, always poignant, Ann Tudor's "In The Kitchen With The Ancient Cook" is a collection of stories on cooking and growing older. She holds a BA from DePauw Uinversity and a graduate degree from Vanderbilt University. She has worked as a teacher at the junior high level and at the university level, as well as, church organist, editor, choir member, craftsperson, pianist, student of the cello, hands-on healer, and--though this doesn't count as work--avid reader. She has written children's and adult books, recorded audiobooks, and had two books published, Hesitating At The Gate and Fast and Fearless Cooking: A Cookbook of Ideas and Techniques Rather Than Recipes. Mother of three and grandmoether of five, Ann lives in Toronto.