Eliz­a­beth Bard is an Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist and author based in France. Her first book, Lunch in Paris: A Love Sto­ry with Recipes has been a New York Times and inter­na­tion­al best­seller, a Barnes & Noble ​“Dis­cov­er Great New Writ­ers” pick, and the recip­i­ent of the 2010 Gour­mand World Cook­book Award for Best First Cook­book (USA). Bard’s writ­ing on food, art, trav­el and dig­i­tal cul­ture has appeared in The New York Times, The Inter­na­tion­al Her­ald Tri­bune, Wired, Harper’s Bazaar and The Huff­in­g­ton Post.