Eugenia Dettelbach Wicker was born in 1942 and received her education in Atlanta at The Westminster Schools and the University of Georgia. She is a former Spanish teacher and the mother of two beautiful daughters. Living now in Italy, France, and the United States, her most recent accomplishment is hiking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela—over 1,000 miles from France to Spain.
Marcie Cohen Ferris is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author most recently of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), which was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award and recognized by the International Association of Culinary Professionals with their Jane Grigson Award. She is currently writing “The Edible South: Food and History in an American Region.”
