Debby Maugans

Debby Maugans has over 20 years experience writing about food and creating recipes for cookbooks and national magazines, including Shape, Health, Southern Living, Cooking Light, and Bon Appetit. She is the author of Small-Batch Baking and Beyond the Bowl: The Cereal Lover's Ultimate Cookbook; she is the former food editor of Creative Ideas for Living Magazine. Maugans developed the recipes for each of the following books: Fannie Flagg's The Whistle Stop Café Cookbook, Guilt-Free Comfort Food, and Volumetrics. Her recipes and styling are found in many Oxmoor House cookbooks. Since 2004 she has written a weekly food column with recipes, Tables for Two, for the Birmingham News. She teaches cooking classes and speaks on downsizing meals for today's smaller households, and is a frequent television guest promoting baking and cooking for two.