Katherine Deumling studied food and culture in Italy and Mexico (on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship) and grew up in Germany. With years of cooking in various parts of the world (and quite of few of those in Oregon blessed with our unbelievable bounty) she has a good sense of what works together, some of the tricks you need to make the simplest ingredients sing, and mostly how to feed hungry mouths with the least amount of stress and the most amount of satisfaction.