Marianne Magnier MorenoMarianne Magnier-Moreno trained to become a chef at the l'École Ferrandi . She worked in restaurants in Paris and New York before focusing on writing cookbooks. She is the author of Middle Eastern Basics (Les Basiques Orientaux); >Baking One Step at a Time (La Pâtisserie), which won the Gourmand Award for Best Dessert Cookbook; and Secrets of Eclaires (Éclairs), which The Independent (London) described as "having reinvented the art of the éclair." Read More Read Less