ELLIE MATHEWS
Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m.

Several years ago, Seattle writer and cooking contest enthusiast Ellie Mathews entered the Pillsbury Bake-off, thinking that sometime in the future she might make a serious bid at winning the prize. To hear amazement, she not only made it into the finals—she won! She shares this story (and many more cooking contest adventures) in her wry, witty book, The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest Memoir (Berkley). Yes, the million dollar recipe for "Salsa Couscous Chicken" is included in the book. Ellie Mathews is also the author of Ambassador to the Penguins (David R. Godine), and the young adult novel, The Linden Tree (Milkweed).

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