Linda Carucci is the Julia Child Director of Culinary Programs at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa, California. She is the author of Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks (Chronicle Books, 2005), which was a finalist for a James Beard Award and the Julia Child First Book Award. For eight years prior to joining the staff at Copia, Linda taught cooking classes in her Oakland, California cooking school and across the United States. In 2002, her peers in the International Association of Culinary Professionals voted Linda Cooking Teacher of the Year. A December 1984 graduate of the California Culinary Academy, Linda went back to serve as the dean there from 1989 to 1993, then taught at the Academy from 1995 to 1996. Linda has a Master's degree in education from Colorado State University and a Bachelor's degree in psychology, magna cum laude, from Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit www.LCKitchen.com