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You may use this biography anywhere a brief biography of Susan is appropriate. Susan Herrmann Loomis is a France-based, award-winning journalist, author and cooking school proprietor with nine books to her credit, and a professionally trained chef. Included among her titles are The Great American Seafood Cookbook, Farmhouse Cookbook, Clambakes and Fish Fries, French Farmhouse Cookbook, Italian Farmhouse Cookbook, (all Workman Publishing, Inc.) and On Rue Tatin (Broadway Books, 2001) a narrative about her life in France, with recipes which won the IACP best literary food book for 2002; Tarte Tatin (Harper Collins UK, 2003), the sequel; and Cooking at Home On Rue Tatin, (William Morrow, May 2005). Loomis contributes to many publications including Cooking Light, Metropolitan Home, France Today, and Gastronomica. Loomis has participated in many television and radio shows, including “Good Morning America” (ABC), “Home Matters,” “Epicurious/Discovery,” “The Splendid Table with Lynn Rosetto Kasper” (NPR), “Food Talk with Arthur Schwartz” (WOR), and “Good Food Hour with Evan Kleinman” (KSRO). Loomis, who has lived in France for nearly twenty years, operates On Rue Tatin, a cultural and culinary cooking program, from her 15th century home in Louviers, France, where she lives with her two children Joseph and Fiona Rose. Participants spend five delicious days cooking and enjoying the meals they’ve made along with wines from throughout France, visiting local markets and artisan food producers, and getting an in-depth look at and feeling for all that is wonderful about France. Loomis can be reached at her website, www.onruetatin.com.