Barbara Grunes is the author or co-author of 50+ cookbooks. A food consultant and historian, Grunes has also written on food and dining for the Chicago Sun Times and food consultant to the State of Illinois. She is well known as an effusive and popular cooking teacher and food writer in the Chicago area. Barbara Grunes is the most published cook book writer in history putting the Midwest on the culinary map and making flour-less chocolate cake a household phrase.
