Every issue of Food Network Magazine is packed with healthful recipes created by the chefs in Food Network Kitchen, led by Katherine Alford and Claudia Sidoti. These chefs have an amazing ability to dream up dishes that are insanely delicious and also good for you—not easy!
Enormous thanks to our food director, Liz Sgroi, for taking the lead on this (and every) project and for being a never-ending source of creativity. Thanks to our managing editor, Maria Baugh, who always keeps us moving forward; to our copy editor, Joy Sanchez; and to Ellery Badcock and Hannah Kay Hunt for organizing so many recipes. Thanks to the Hearst Books team: Jacqueline Deval, vice president, publisher, and Mark Gompertz, creative director, content extensions. Thank you to our incredible partners at Clarkson Potter: Publisher Aaron Wehner, Associate Publisher Doris Cooper, Editor Angelin Borsics, Executive Director of Production Derek Gullino, Art Director Michael Nagin and Designer Sonia Persad.
We are so grateful to Creative Director Deirdre Koribanick—she created the fun, colorful, user-friendly look of the magazine, and she has brought the same energy and order to the pages of this book. Thanks to Photo Director Alice Albert and her team for producing the gorgeous images, to Kate Bednarek and Morgan Salyer for sourcing every photo, and to Ian Doherty and Anthony Mikolajczyk for perfecting every page.
We are also so thankful for the strong partnership that led to Food Network Magazine. Thanks to Food Network President Brooke Bailey Johnson, and at Hearst, President David Carey; President, Marketing and Publishing Director Michael Clinton; Executive Vice President and General Manager John P. Loughlin; and especially to our mentor, Editorial Director Ellen Levine.