Elissa AltmanELISSA ALTMAN is the critically-acclaimed author of Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, and the James Beard Award-winning blog of the same name. Her work has appeared everywhere from the all Street Journal and The Guardian to the New York Times, Tin House, LitHub, Saveur, O: The Oprah Magazine, and the Washington Post, where her column, Feeding My Mother, ran for a year. Her work has been anthologized in Best Food Writing for six years. A finalist for the 2016 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Altman has appeared live everywhere from the TEDx stage to the Joseph Papp Public Theater, on Heritage Radio, and NPR's The Splendid Table and All Things Considered. She lives in Connecticut with her family. Read More Read Less