About the Author

Carol Bowen Ball is a food writer with over 100 cookery books published to date. A former cookery editor (of Homes & Gardens magazine) she also won the Cookery Book of the Year Award for her book Versatile Vegetables. She's also a post-op Bariatric Patient. Seven years ago she opted to have bariatric surgery (a gastric bypass) and lost, and has maintained, a 61/2 stone (90+lb) reduction in her weight.