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About the Author

Ginna BB Gordon has cooked for movie stars, Tibetan Lamas, gurus, and teachers, for retreat and conference centers, for her own catering companies and cafés, and in some very unusual situations (tents, tall ships on the Pacific Coast, mountain lodges, trailers on LA movie sets, Beverly Hills spa kitchens, and High Sierra campfires).

Ginna was the founding executive chef at Deepak Chopra's Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California, where she designed the original kitchen, created the spa meals and operated a 24-seat café at the Center.

With David Simon, MD, Chopra Center Medical Director, Ginna co-authored A Simple Celebration: a vegetarian cookbook for body mind and spirit, (Ginna Bell Bragg, Harmony Books/ Random House, 1997, ISBN 0-517-70732-2), a book for the vegetarian home cook interested in the practice of Ayurveda, the lifestyle based on ancient East Indian rishi-knowledge. Using Western ingredients, the book offers meals and a reference guide for ingredients and body types. Click here to find this book on Amazon.com

Ginna’s Honey, Baby, Darlin' is a serial memoir about cooking, love and the love of cooking. It started in 2011 with The Farm, an array of 108 recipes from the early 1950s. The next volume, Face the Music, was a whimsical side trip with a collection of reworked 1960s recipes. The Gingerbread Farm, was published in January 2013, and includes 160 recipes from the 1960s and 1970s. These first three books are available on Amazon.com and all the other usual places online. Still to come in the series: The Golden Gate Retreat Center and My Carmel.

Ginna lives with her husband, musician David Gordon, and their two cats, in Carmel, California. Ginna's father served in Korea from September, 1951 to June, 1952. Her grandfather, Jess Grover Bell, founded Bonne Bell Cosmetics in 1927. And her mother, Virginia, was his oldest daughter.