Thanks to my mom for teaching me good sense when it came to eating. Junk food snacks may have been mostly reserved for road trips, but they were never such a taboo as to make them irresistible. Wish I could have shared some of these recipes with her.

Thanks to my recipe testers for making sure that what was in my brain made it to the page and for sharing your honest feedback.

Thanks to Kim Boyce, owner of BAKESHOP in Portland, Oregon, for inspiring me to delve deeper into whole grains with her gorgeously written cookbook, Good to the Grain, and with her irresistible figgy scones.

Thanks to Susan, Michelle, Rachelle, Anna, Christy, and the gang at Sasquatch for helping me turn this wacky idea into a beautiful book!