Baking in the American South

ANNE BYRN is a New York Times bestselling food writer and author. She writes the weekly newsletter Between the Layers, one of the top 20 food and drink newsletters worldwide on Substack. She has authored several cookbooks. Her latest books are A New Take on Cake and Skillet Love, the latter exploring the history and modern uses for the cast-iron skillet. They followed American Cookie and American Cake, which NPR named one of the best cookbooks of 2016. The Cake Mix Doctor and sequels have more than 4 million copies in print, and USA Today called The Cake Mix Doctor the bestselling cookbook the year it debuted.

Byrn’s career began as a food writer for The Atlanta Journal. Her food writing was named the Best Food Section by the Association of Food Journalists. She studied at La Varenne École de Cuisine in Paris and lived in England where she wrote about food and travel for a year. Anne is a contributor to Food52, Bon Appétit, and the Bitter Southerner.

Byrn is a Nashville native and a fifth-generation Tennessean. For several years, she was the food writer for The Tennessean. Byrn has been featured in People magazine, The Washington Post, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, and many other publications. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Later Today, CNN, The Food Network, and QVC and has taught cooking classes across the country.

She and her husband live in Nashville.

Rinne Allen spends most of her days collaborating with chefs, farmers, artisans, designers, and researchers to document their work and the process that goes into making it, with the hopes that those who view her pictures will learn something from them. Rinne's work has been published in over 15 books and in national and international magazines, as well as shown in galleries and educational institutions. She also has a regular column about harvests with the New York Times' T magazine that focuses on the southern region that she calls home. She has a background in fine art photography, with a BFA in photography from Sewanee, in Tennessee, and now works out of her studio in an old house in her hometown of Athens, Georgia. You can interact with her photography at www.rinneallen.com.