Gail Monaghan is a cookbook author and NYC cooking teacher. She writes for the

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Off Duty section as a feature food columnist and is the host of the

Digital Network’s ''Cooking Confidential with Gail Monaghan''. She has cooked alongside chefs

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, Michael Symon, and Carla Hall on ABC's ''The Chew''. Monaghan is the editor of Lora Zarubin’s

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-winning cookbook ''I Am Almost Always Hungry'', as well as James Beard Award- winning chef Jeremiah Tower’s ''Jeremiah Tower Cooks''. Her work has been featured in ''Food and Wine'', ''House and Garden'', ''O, the Oprah Magazine'', ''Food Arts'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Early life and career

After some years owning and operating successful design businesses, she turned to food, earning a professional degree from The Institute of Culinary Education in 1991. In 1992, she established her own gourmet baking business, selling to several

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eateries including Dean & DeLuca, Felissimo and Petrossian. She then published her first cookbooks, ''Perfect Picnics for All Seasons'' and ''

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'', a cookbook inspired by the movie of the same name. Her more recent works include the highly acclaimed ''Lost Desserts'' and ''The Entrees'', which tracked the origins of classic dishes from the past, sweet and savory respectively. Bloomberg's Peter Elliot named ''Lost Desserts'' the
best sweets book of the year
' ''Publishers Weekly'' later named "The Entrees" one of the

' In June 2014, Monaghan revealed to th

that she had been working on her latest cookbook ''It's All in the Timing'', to be published a year or so later by Agate.

Bibliography

* Monaghan, Gail (2010). ''The Entrees: Remembered Favorites from the Past: Recipes from Legendary Chefs and Restaurants''.

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. * Monaghan, Gail (2007). ''Lost Desserts: Delicious Indulgences of the Past Recipes from Legendary and Famous Chefs''.

. * Monaghan, Gail (1996). ''The Some Like it Hot Cookbook''. Abbeville Press, Inc. * Monaghan, Gail (1995). ''Perfect Picnics For All Seasons''. Abbeville Press, Inc.

References

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