The Uncommon Cookbook Author:Ruth Mellinkoff "Ruth Mellinkoff loves to entertain, and to cook -- whether just for her family (a professor of law and a teenage son) or for a large group of friends. Her culinary skills have developed in a long course of study that began with Minnesota girlhood mudpies. In 1958 she attended the famed Cordon Bleu School of Cooking in Paris. Sincd then she has ... more »traveled...tasting new foods and creating her own unique methods of cookery...recently received a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles." Complete index.« less