Peter D. Franklin has been writing his weekly
Cookbook Nook column for Universal Press Syndicate for nearly 20 years. His cookbook collection, which numbers more than 5,000 volumes, has been donated to the Rare Books Library at The Ohio State University, Columbus. He also is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience, a contributor to a variety of periodicals, a public relations practitioner, and the author of 11 books. His twelvth, a true-crime thriller, is expected to be published in 2005. His online address is:
pfnook@aol.com