Inspired by teas and new ways to serve them, Gail Greco wrote and photographed the 75+ recipes in her third book on tea, Afternoon Tea is the New Happy Hour.

A two-time award-winning news journalist, Gail also writes about food and home lifestyles. She has authored 16 cookbooks, plus edited and produced many for chefs, organizations, and home cooks. She wrote, directed, and produced hundreds of original social media recipe videos for DuPont Non-Stick Cookware Surfaces and for Boar’s Head Deli Provisions. She was executive food editor for the Discovery Channel’s World Class Cuisine TV series where she advanced her cooking craft under the world’s top chefs.

And Gail was executive producer and host of her own PBS TV series, Country Inn Cooking with Gail Greco, which won a James Beard Best TV Food Journalism award. She was East Coast field editor of Romantic Homes Magazine and has written for national publications, including Country Home, Coastal Living, and Victorian Homes. And she taught journalism at the State University of New York (SUNY). With one hand on the keyboard and with the other holding a teacup, she works by the balmy Gulf waters of southwest Florida and on a mountain peak in western North Carolina.