Andrew Feinberg and Francine Stephens are the owners of Franny’s and Bklyn Larder. They live in Brooklyn with their two children, Prue and Marco. Melissa Clark is a food columnist for the New York Times and a bestselling cookbook author.
Melissa Clark, a James Beard Foundation award winner, writes about cuisine, wine, travel for numerous publications, including the
New York Times (where she writes the enormously popular A Good Appetite Dining Section column),
Bon Appetit,
Food & Wine, and
Martha Stewart. Her work has also appeared in Best Food Writing 2007, and she is a regular guest on the nationally broadcast NPR’s The Takeaway. Clark has written 42 cookbooks, including
Dinner: Changing the Game, and most recently
Dinner in an Instant and
Dinner in French. She has also written books in collaboration, including
Braise with Chef Daniel Boulud,
The Last Course with former Gramercy Tavern pastry chef Claudia Fleming,
The Deen Family Cookbook with Paula Deen, and
The Skinny: How to Fit into Your Little Black Dress Forever. Clark was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.