Cheryl Alters Jamison

Four-time James Beard Book Award–winner Cheryl Alters Jamison is one of the nation’s premiere food writers, the author of numerous cookbooks, former Food Editor for New Mexico Magazine, and the host of Heating It Up, a food talk radio show. Her Excited About Food website is a place that embraces good eating and creates enticing meals the whole family will enjoy. She is the coauthor of Smoke & Spice, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, and The Rancho de Chimayoì Cookbook: The Traditional Cooking of New Mexico, among others. She lives in Santa Fe.