Maggie Stuckey
Maggie Stuckey is a writer who grows vegetables and cooks up a storm in her Portland, Oregon, home. The author of Soup Night, The Bountiful Container and seven other books on gardening and horticulture, she is happiest when tending her vegetable garden and using the outcome to create new soups.
Carolyn Bucha is a self-taught, award-winning artist who specializes in illustrations for books and greeting cards, such as Country Tea Party, similar Storey title Tea With Friends by Elizabeth Knight, and H. George Caspari Cards. Her work has been on the cover of The Treasury of American Quilts and Bartlett's Ocean View Farm Cookbook, and her watercolors were featured in the cookbook, Please Come to Dinner. Carolyn's style was influenced by the years she spent in the Middle East and Paris. Originally from England, Carolyn now lives in Waccabuc, New York.