Joanna Pruess is a food and travel writer and a consultant to the food industry. She is the author of fourteen cookbooks including ''

Seduced by Bacon ''Seduced by Bacon: Recipes & Lore about America's Favorite Indulgence'' is a cookbook about bacon written by Joanna Pruess with her husband Bob Lape. It was first published by The Lyons Press in 2006 and contains 90 recipes using bacon for b ...

'' and, most recently, '' Soup for Two: Small-Batch Recipes for One, Two, or a Few'' and '' Dos Caminos Tacos: 100 Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Mexican Street Food'' with chef Ivy Stark.

Personal life

Pruess graduated from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, received a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in English from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, and a certificate of graduate studies in

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and arts from the

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. She also studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Pruess was the director of the Cookingstudio, a school she founded that held classes in a number of New Jersey branches of the

Kings Super Markets Kings Food Markets is an American food market chain headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, with stores in northern New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. From 1988 to 2006, it was owned by British retailer Marks & Spencer. In 2009, Kings ac ...

chain, from 1982 to 1987. Her parents were Harriet and Gerald Rubens of Los Angeles, California.

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References

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