Elissa Altman is an award-winning food writer, a contributor to Saveur and Huffington Post, a restaurant critic and founder of the critically-acclaimed blog Poor Man's Feast, which champions parsimonious dining and chronicles the cultural love-hate relationship that we have with it. She attended the Institute for Culinary Education in New York City, worked as both a personal chef and caterer, and was the publications manager at the original Dean & Deluca. Altman is also the author of Big Food (Rodale, 2005), and spent twelve years in senior editorial positions at HarperCollins and Clarkson Potter, among other houses.