Paula Forbes has reviewed cookbooks for ten years, and her reviews have appeared in Eater, Epicurious, Lucky Peach, and Food52. She writes a weekly cookbook newsletter called Stained Page News, and her first book, The Austin Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from Deep in the Heart of Texas, is out now from Abrams. She lives in Austin, Texas with one man, one dog, two cats, and, at the moment, more okra plants than she knows what to do with.