New England Desserts

Born in Maine, bred in New Hampshire, and a Massachusetts resident for more than 30 years, Tammy Donroe Inman is a New England food writer, trained chef, and Boston-based cooking instructor. Her first cookbook, WINTERSWEET: Seasonal Desserts to Warm the Home, focuses entirely on creative winter baking. Critics from The Wall Street Journal, USAToday, The Boston Globe, Publisher’s Weekly, and Library Journal raved. After earning her chops in the test kitchen of Cook’s Illustrated magazine and the television show America’s Test Kitchen, she spent nearly 20 years writing about food and developing recipes for publications like Fine Cooking, Parents, Yankee Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, and Serious Eats. She has taught hands-on adult and child cooking classes at the Newton cooking school Create a Cook for five years. Her humorous food blog, Food on the Food, has more than 2 million hits and was named “Best of the Web” by Saveur. She has also been interviewed by NPR’s All Things Considered, CBS Evening News, and TheAtlantic about my perspective on food.