Adeena Sussman is a food stylist, recipe developer, and co-author of nine cookbooks (with numerous more in the works). She's also the creator of Crispianity, a foodrepublic.com column with creative recipes and comments on crispy and crunchy foods. She grew up in Northern California and now splits her time between New York and Tel Aviv, where a passion for tahini is essentially a need for residency. She is now working on an Israeli food cookbook as well as numerous other collaboration ventures.