Ellen Brown, who gained the national limelight in 1982 as the founding food editor of USA Today, is the author of twenty-five cookbooks, including several for The Lyons Press: $3 Meals: Feed Your Family Delicious Meals for Less than the Cost of a Gallon of Milk and two other volumes in the $3 Meals series, as well as the five-volume Great Year-Round Grilling series.