Maggie Green is a professionally trained chef, a food and nutrition expert, and a registered and licensed dietitian. After a career in clinical dietetics and food service management, Green opened the Green Apron Company, which specializes in culinary nutrition, food and nutrition writing, and recipe and cookbook development. She is author of Tasting Kentucky: Favorite Recipes from the Bluegrass State and The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook and editor of BakeWise and Joy of Cooking. Green lives in Ft. Wright, Kentucky, with her husband, their three children, and a shaggy dog also named Maggie.