At Home Cafe: Great Food And Fun for Everyone!

At Home Cafe is a book for families. It's about bringing families back into the heart of the home-the kitchen. This book is a sampling of the authors' tried and true recipes that are fun to create, delicious to eat, and always liberally seasoned with entusiasm, patience, and love.

Easy to follow kids' notes help even the youngest cooks achieve success and pull-out grocery lists for each menu make shopping a breeze.

Leslie Andrews Carpenter is a native of Greenville, Mississippi. She attributes her love of cooking to her New Orleans-born parents and their heritage of communal cooking and eating. Leslie holds a degree in education from the University of Mississippi, where she was awarded the title of Miss Ole Miss. Leslie lives in Jackson with her husband, Phillip, and their four children Rob, William, Myers and Annie.

Helen Puckett DeFrance was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. The fourth child in a family of six children, she learned cooking from her grandmother, Helen Todd. She holds a masters degree in Education from Pepperdine University with an emphasis in the Montessori method of education which promotes a "hands-on" approach to learning. Helen and her son, Martin, live in Jackson.