About the Author

Going to try some Gourmet Mom Recipes? Maybe you might like to get to know me better, before you take the actual plunge.

10 Questions for Mary King (a.k.a. The Gourmet Mom)*

1. What is your favorite food motto?

“When it comes to food, if it doesn’t taste good, don’t waste the calories”

2. What is the point of this newsletter, in ten words or less?

Provide inspiration, easy (but good) recipes and have some fun.

3. Raising three kids, having two careers, being a wife-how does it all get done?

I’ve come to realize that I am not a super mom, and I no longer strive to be. Life is a lot easier this way. While most things on my list eventually get done, it is the word eventually that is the key here. For instance, our beds do get made – just not everyday. We eat as a family for supper each night – cold cereal with milk does count.

4. What about food, what is your favorite dessert?

Chocolate cream pie, topped with whipped cream served in a chocolate crumb crust. O.K. I will admit it, anything with chocolate.

5. What is your favorite book with a subject matter of food?

TIE: Tender to the Bone and Comfort me with Apples both written by Ruth Reichl

6. What is your favorite movie with a subject matter of food?

Mostly Martha – foreign film, directed by Sandra Nettelbeck

7. What is your favorite drink?

Non Alcoholic: Raspberry Lime Rickey

Alcoholic: Lemon Drop Martini - Straight Up

8. What cookbook could you not live without?

The New Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker

9. What is your favorite non-healthy food indulgence?

Bavarian Cream Filled Donuts

10. What is it like being a working mom?

A quote from Jane Sellman an American Writer says it best – The phrase “Working Mother” is redundant.

For me it is the art of happily writing the book on multi tasking.

* Since Mary King also posed these questions, you can feel free to email and ask your own.