A new biography of famed chef and cookbook author Paula Wolfert was recently published, featuring — you guessed it — some of her delicious recipes. Wolfert has been called the Julia Child of Mediterranean food in America. She once spoke eight languages and could tell how a piece of bread was leavened with one bite. Thanks to her detailed writing, top chefs in the U.S. say she taught them to treasure flavors from the Mediterranean. But a few years ago, Wolfert was diagnosed with dementia. That's when Emily Kaiser Thelin set out to capture Wolfert's memories and recipes while she still could, and published them in Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert's Renegade Life . She was Wolfert's editor and has now become her biographer. Thelin tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that it wasn't easy getting her book published. "About a dozen publishers told me her time passed but I felt her accomplishments were too important to not have a book," Thelin says. "So with the support of the
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