Thanks for visiting abbydodge.com - a companion website for all my work in cookbooks, magazine articles, classes and events. I hope you find it to be a useful and refreshing resource. It's here! My newest cookbook, Around the World, hits the bookstores in one week - just in time for International Children’s Month! Like my first two immensely popular kids books - Kid's Baking and The Kid’s Cookbook - this new book is written for kids as well as the adults in their lives. Yes, indeed, I hear from many, many folks in the 20 and older category that cook from these books -- the recipes are that easy and that good! With foods like hummus and Pad Thai becoming as common as meatloaf and apple pie, kids today are growing up in an increasingly multicultural world, and with help from my new book, they can eat like it, too! I hope you'll agree that book is an essential feast for both the eyes and bellies of children (and their parents) everywhere. Click here for a peek inside the book and to order your copy. And for home bakers, check out The Weekend Baker -- an indispensable guide to help you to fit baking into your busy life. It was voted one of the USAToday and Food & Wine's the top ten cookbooks of the year and was also honored as a 2006 IACP Cookbook Award Finalist. As always, please keep me posted as to what's going on in your culinary world. I love hearing from readers and I make a point of answering everyone in a timely fashion. Your questions and comments help improve my work and, ultimately, make my next project better. Click on Ask Abby and, let me know what's cooking! Abigail Johnson Dodge

baking, cooking, kitchen appliances, cookbooks, La Varenne and later worked under celebrated chefs Michel Guerard and Guy Savoy, specializing in pastry. She held editorial posts at Parents and Woman’s Day magazines, and began work on a variety of projects, all centered around the pleasures of baking. Currently a contributing editor at Fine Cooking, Abby founded the magazine’s test kitchen, where her baking techniques, and conversations with readers, quickly gained her a loyal following. The author of five popular cookbooks, Abby’s most recent publication, The Weekend Baker, (W.W. Norton, 2005) has the honor of being named one of the “Top Ten Cookbooks of the Year” by Food and Wine Magazine as well as an IACP Cookbook Finalist. Her other books, Kids Baking, (Oxmoor House, 2003), Williams-Sonoma Dessert (Simon and Shuster, 2002) now in its second printing, The Kid’s Cookbook (Oxmoor House, 2000) and Great Fruit Desserts (1997), have received critical acclaim. She was also a contributor to The New Joy of Cooking (Scribner, 1997) Cookies for Christmas (Meredith, 1999) and Savoring America (Oxmoor House, 2002) which was nominated for a James Beard Award and received the prestigious Ben Franklin Award. In addition to appearing regularly on TV and radio, Abby teaches classes and seminars at cooking schools around the country, belongs to several food associations including The International Association of Culinary Professionals and the American Institute of Wine and Food, and serves on the National Cutco Culinary Advisory Board. In her hectic life as author, contributing editor, teacher, volunteer, mother, sister and friend, Abby continues to find the time to bake for her family and friends—a passion she refuses to give up. She lives in the Connecticut town where she grew up with her husband Chris, and their two children, Alex and Tierney, who are enthusiastic bakers and tasters, especially when the recipes call for chocolate.