Beth Hensperger is the author (with Julie Kaufmann) of the bestselling Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, as well as other top-selling appliance cookbooks, including The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook and The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook (co-authored with Julie Kaufmann), now in its second edition. Beth is also an expert baker and has written for Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and other online and national magazines.

Julie Kaufmann spent her first career in journalism, including nine wonderful years as an editor on the award-winning Food & Wine section of the San Jose Mercury News. She is co-author with Beth Hensperger of The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, and Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining.