About Flo Braker

Flo Braker has been teaching baking across the country for almost thirty-five years. She broke new ground in the literature of dessert making with her cookbook The Simple Art of Perfect Baking and the award-winning Sweet Miniatures: The Art of Making Bite-Size Desserts. She also collaborated with other bakers on The Bakers Dozen Cookbook. Her most recent work is the 2009 James Beard Award-nominated book Baking for All Occasions. She has been the Baker columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle food section since 1989.

Flo is a past president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), a charter member and past president of the San Francisco Professional Food Society, a charter member and past president of the Bakers Dozen in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a 1997 inductee of The James Beard Foundation Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. Flo has been featured in numerous publications and has made several guest appearances on television. A proud grandmother of three, she resides with her kind, supportive husband in Palo Alto, California.