Linda Hoffman Kimball's "Saints Well Seasoned: Musings on How Food Nourishes Us--Body, Heart, and Soul" features essays by 40 Latter-day Saint writers. She is the author of the novels "Home to Roost" and "The Marketing of Sister B." She has an M.F.A. from Boston University and provided the illustrations for "Birds of Algonquin Legend," published in 1995 by University of Michigan Press. Linda and her husband, Christian, have three children and a large dog.