Mara Reid Rogers (marareidrogerscooks.com) has written nine cookbooks, several of which have been main selections for national book clubs. When The South The Beautiful Cookbook was published, a book she co-authored, it was lauded as “One of the year’s top ten cookbooks,” according to Nation’s Restaurant News and also picked as “prime choice” by reviewers from Cosmopolitan magazine and Good Morning America. She has both hosted and co-hosted two different radio shows and co-hosted a national public television cooking show series. She was a contributing food writer for The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and former Food and Home Entertaining Editor for Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles magazine, and Assistant Food and Home Entertaining Editor for House Beautiful magazine.