Hi! my name is Audra Vaughan, and I live in Fries, Va. I have been married for 2 yrs. to a great man named Tim. I have always loved cooking. I like have lots of people over for dinner and cookouts. I have told my husbund for the past 3 yrs that was going to get the nerve up tp try out for the Next Food Network Star, every year I fill the app. out but never do the video and mail it in. In the future I would like to have my own small dinner. My step-son says Audra you need your own resturant, I tell him that cost money. My husbund wont eat italian food out because he says mine is better. This book is for all my family and friends that have enjoyed all my meals I have made for them, because if it was not for them, I would have not made this cookbook. So no more, Audra how do you make that. Know you have the book. I love all of you, and have really enjoyed the laugter and conversation over all the dinners we have had, and to the to come.