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 rom the Wall Street Journal and the London 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 for six years in Best Food Writing. A finalist for the 2016 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, she 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. Read More Read Less