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I'm Stacey. I live in northern California with my husband and my cat and step-cats and our Catahoula dog in a light and bright home with a big kitchen and lots of laughter. And fur. I often refer to all of the cats as bad and willful, the dog as rambunctious, and to my husband as fabulous. The truth is that the cats are not constantly bad or willful and are actually very sweet and cuddly, but I know that's only so they can coat me with fur. The truth is that the dog is not always rambuctious, but more often than not he is and also he's a snuggly wonderful sweetheart. And the truth is that my husband is actually quite fabulous and lovely and although I occasionally want to stab him for being his sometimes too-quirky self, I have to keep him around because I just cannot do without him.

I went to culinary school in San Francisco, and now I can call myself a chef. The truth is that although I have become a much better cook, and I really love to cook and to eat and to drink wine, and to read and also to write about cooking and eating and drinking wine, I do not work as a chef.

I cannot call myself a photographer, but I do enjoy taking pictures. I photograph my pets, my family, and my food. The truth is that although there's a lot of great information in books and I have learned a lot and refer to the books when I don't remember what it is I ought to do, I often don't use what I've learned and instead I wing it.