After spending most of the 1980s eating and drinking in Paris (with stints at Fairchild Publications and The Wall Street Journal Europe), Christy Hobart moved to New York to pursue a degree in journalism from New York University. In 1994, she joined a group of editors and helped launch Saveur, the food, culture and travel magazine where she wrote and edited stories on everything from a hole-in-the-wall Japanese whisky bar in Midtown Manhattan to a family's Christmas celebration in Sweden. Four years later, she joined the staff of Elle Decor, where she wrote and edited articles on homes, gardens and style.

For the past 10 years, she has been freelancing in Los Angeles for assorted food and shelter publications and The Los Angeles Times. In addition to interviewing people who have a hand in bringing food to your plate -- from the botanist to the fisherman, the papusa entrepreneur to the waiter on the verge of his big break -- Hobart will be writing about vegetable gardening, home entertaining and, when she is able to travel to her favorite city, about  fabulous meals in Paris.