DeeDee Stovel

DeeDee Stovel began her lifelong love of food and cooking in her backyard as a child, cooking on a buddy burner. That early passion turned into a career as a writer, caterer, teacher, and passionate advocate of fresh, homemade food, and her books, Pumpkin: A Super Food for all Twelve Months of the Year, Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus, and Let’s Get Together: Simple Recipes for Gatherings with Friends have furthered her devotion to helping people cook and eat with love. Her years of teaching middle-schoolers to prepare foods that are fresh, good for you, and easy to make as well as her love of gardening in her adopted state of California have given her books an authentic voice as well as a dose of how to create menus for a crowd with what’s in the backyard garden.