Robin Donovan is a San Francisco-based freelance journalist, book author, and editor specializing in food, cooking, travel, and other lifestyle topics. Her feature articles, original recipes, and restaurant and cookbook reviews appear frequently on the pages of popular magazines, newspapers, and websites including Cooking Light, Fitness, San Jose Mercury News, Sallys-Place.com, Amazon.com, San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate.com and many others. Read some of Robin's recent articles.

Robin has covered stories ranging from the hottest restaurants on the San Francisco scene to the clandestine world of wild mushroom hunters, the health benefits of honey, and the worldwide revival of ancient strains of rice. Her first cookbook, Campfire Cuisine: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors, was published by Quirk Books in May 2006 (click here to read excerpts from the book). Robin recently collaborated with Dr. Peter Gott, the most widely syndicated medical columnist in the US, to coauthor the New York Times bestseller Dr. Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet (July 2006, Quill Driver Books; January 2007, Warner Wellness). Robin also recently wrote and edited the "Restaurants" chapter of Moon Metro San Francisco (Avalon Travel, September 2008).

Robin is knowledgeable and passionate about food, cooking, and the culinary industry; a creative, versatile, and dependable writer; a seasoned researcher and interviewer; and a skilled and inventive recipe developer.

When she is not cooking or eating—or writing about cooking or eating—Robin can often be found either at the knitting store trying desperately to think of a friend who doesn't yet have a homemade hat, or at the racetrack betting her favorite horse across the board. She lives, with her husband and son, in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently hard at work on her next cookbook.