PAT CONROY is the author of The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, My Losing Season, and South of Broad Mr. Conroy won the James Beard Award for food writing in 2002.
SUZANNE WILLIAMSON POLLAK, the author of Entertaining for Dummies, was the spokesperson for Federated Department Stores on the subject of cooking and home entertaining.