Barbara Grunes is the author or co-author of 50+ cookbooks. A food consultant and historian, Grunes has also written on food and dining for the Chicago Sun Times and food consultant to the State of Illinois. She is well known as an effusive and popular cooking teacher and food writer in the Chicago area. Barbara Grunes is the most published cook book writer in history putting the Midwest on the culinary map and making flour-less chocolate cake a household phrase. Barbara Grunes has written cookbooks on all major subjects, including an entire series on grill cooking featuring Fish on the Grill, Poultry on the Grill, and Beef Lover's Great Grill Book. She lives in Chicago. Early life Barbara Grunes was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 12, 1931. As a girl she learned how to cook at her mother's side in her family's home in Revere, Massachusetts. She began her career as an education psychologist. How Barbara Grunes got started writing cookbooks As a newlywed, she asked her husband what he liked to eat. To which he responded, "I quite like Chinese food". After cooking lessons and research her first cookbook, Cuisine de Chine, was born. (Cuisine de Chine by Barbara Grunes (Paperback – 1978). It was published under Dorothy Press in 1974. In it she did what Julia Child did with French food; Grunes made Chinese cooking for the first time accessible to the American public. Publications Cuisine De Chine, Barbara Grunes Dorothy Press (Paperback – 1974) ASIN: B00071I2KW The Ultimate Food Processor Cookbook, Barbara Grunes Consumer Guide Publishing (Paperback – 1980) Oriental Express; Chinese Menus for the Food Processor, Barbara Grunes Good Food Books (Paperback – 1978) Inside the Convection Oven, Barbara Grunes and Maxine Horwitz co-author, paperback, 1975, Good Food Books Fish on the Grill: More Than 70 Elegant, Easy, and Delectable Recipes, by Barbara Grunes and Phyllis Magida coauthor (Paperback – May 1986) All-American Vegetarian: A Regional Harvest of 200 Low-Fat Recipes, by Barbara Grunes and Virginia Van Vynckt coauthor (Paperback – Jun 1, 1995) Williams-Sonoma: Roasting by Barbara Grunes, (Hardcover – Nov 5, 2002) Gourmet Fish on the Grill: More Than 90 Easy Recipes for Elegant Entertaining, by Barbara Grunes and Phyllis Magida (Paperback – Apr 1989) Healthy Grilling : Sizzling Favorites for Indoor and Outdoor Grills by Barbara Grunes (Paperback – May 20, 2001) Puddings and Pies: Traditional Desserts for a New Generation by