Anne Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004. She is a columnist for the Washington Post. She is also the director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute in London. She has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine, as the Political Editor of the Evening Standard and as a columnist at several newspapers, including the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. From 1988-1991 she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw corresponded of the Economist magazine. Danielle Crittenden tested and developed many of the recipes in the book. Crittenden blogs regularly for the Huffington Post and her articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post among others.