Cheryl Alters Jamison is the author of Tasting New Mexico: Recipes Celebrating 100 Years of Distinctive Home Cooking and is the recipient of four James Beard Foundation Book Awards and an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award. On her own and with her late husband, Bill Jamison, she has written some 20 books, including The Border Cookbook, Texas Q, Texas Slow Cooker, and American Home Cooking. She has appeared on the Today show and on the Food Network with Bobby Flay. Jamison is host of the Heating It Up radio show and is the narrator of the upcoming TV docuseries Foods of Santa Fe. She also created the famous New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail and teaches at the Santa Fe School of Cooking. She’s a four-decade resident of the village of Tesuque, north of Santa Fe.