For years, Dawn Ranck Hower has been growing herbs, cooking with herbs, teaching about herbs, and generally spreading her contagion about the little plants and the way they enliven food. She is an advocate of bringing herbs to everyone's kitchens, not just to the cooking artists'. She is also the co-author of A Quilter's Christmas Cookbook, Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook, and Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining. Ranck Hower lives in New Holland, Pennsylvania.

Phyllis Good is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold more than 12 million copies. Good authored the national bestselling Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook series, the Fix-It and Enjoy-It cookbook series, as well as numerous other cookbooks and nonfiction titles. Good spends her time writing, editing books, and cooking new recipes. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.