Marianne Moreno

Marianne Magnier-Moreno trained to become a chef at the l'École Ferrandi. She worked in restaurants in Paris and New York before focusing on writing cookbooks. She is the author of Middle Eastern Basics ( Les Basiques Orientaux ); Baking One Step at a Time (La Pâtisserie ), which won the Gourmand Award for Best Dessert Cookbook; and Secrets of Eclaires ( Éclairs ), which The Independent (London) described as "having reinvented the art of the éclair."