Georgeanne Brennan is an award-winning cookbook author and journalist who grew up and was educated in southern California. In 1970 she and her husband went to southern France with their small daughter and bought an old farmhouse where they made goat cheese and raised feeder pigs.

After returning to northern California, Georgeanne and a partner, Charlotte Glenn, started Le Marché Seeds, a national mail-order specialty vegetable seed company in 1982. The company attracted customers from all over the United States, including emerging organic market growers. Out of her these activities came Georgeanne’s first book, The New American Vegetable Cookbook (1984) co-authored with Isaac Cronin and Charlotte Glenn. Since then she has written several more books including POTAGER: Fresh Garden Cooking in the French Style, which was nominated for a James Beard Award, as was her next book, The Glass Pantry; Preserving Flavor. In 2007 she published her food memoir, A Pig in Provence.

In addition to her books, Georgeanne writes regular features for The San Francisco Chronicle  and is a regular contributor to Fine Cooking, Bon Appétit, and Cooking Pleasures. She has also contributed to The New York Times, Garden Design, Metropolitan Home, Horticulture, and Organic Gardening.

Active in the Slow Food movement for many years, Georgeanne has served as a jury member for the Slow Food International Award, as a member of Slow Food's American Ark Selection Committee, and is currently co-leader of the Slow Food Yolo Convivium. She and her family live on their small farm in northern California.

Georgeanne can be reached at georgeannebrennan.com.