Dana Jacobi is the author of 10 cookbooks, including James Beard award finalists The Essentials of Healthful Cooking and The Joy of Soy. She writes the nationally syndicated column "Something Different," and her writing has appeared in Cooking Light, Cooking Pleasures, Cooks Magazine, Eating Well, Food & Wine, Natural Health, Prevention and Vegetarian Times. In addition to teaching, she has marketed her own specialty food line and created products for Kraft-General Foods and Arrowhead Mills.