Martha Rose Shulman is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five cookbooks, including The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking, The Very Best of Recipes for Health, Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World’s Healthiest Cuisine (named one of the 6 best vegetarian cookbooks of the last 25 years by Cooking Light Magazine), Mediterranean Light, Provençal Light, and Entertaining Light. For over eight years she wrote the popular recipe feature entitled Recipes for Health for the New York Times Food section, and has over 1,000 recipes on the Cooking.nytimes.com website.

Martha is also a sought-after writing collaborator. She has co-authored two James Beard Award-winning cookbooks, The Secrets of Baking with pastry chef Sherry Yard, and The Art of French Pastry with Jacquy Pfeiffer. She has also co-authored books with Wolfgang Puck, Dean Ornish, Mark Peel, Pati Jinich, and with the Culinary Institute of America.