Linda Long has had a lifelong relationship with the food industry, starting as a waitress and short order cook at the age of twelve in her parents' truck stop in Pennsylvania. A home economist who taught high school foods in the early part of her career, and spending a decade in the resort hotel business, Linda has been a committed vegan for thirty years. Her love affair with all things vegan and her natural instincts for promotion and marketing, make her the ideal person to preparea compendium of gourmet vegan fare.