Judith Olney is a cookbook author, a cooking school teacher, and a former restaurant critic and food editor at the Washington Times. She lived in Africa, (where she dined on ostrich eggs and fufu); London where she worked for cookery writer Elizabeth David and spent time in the kitchen of the Connought Hotel, and France where she learned from and aided her brother-in-law Richard Olney at his famous Avignon classes. Currently living in Palm Beach, Florida, she still writes and teaches an occasional class at the Society of the Four Arts.