Kitchen Scoop, is a weekly column of quick and easy recipes for people who want to create home-cooked meals with a minimum of time and effort. Providing organizational tips, nutritional information and an optional color photo of each meal, author Alicia Ross help readers create mouth-watering feasts in the time it takes to get a pizza delivered.
Alicia Ross

Alicia Ross brings more than 20 years of professional experience to the kitchen as a columnist, cookbook author, food blogger and photographer. But it was during her upbringing in rural North Carolina that her culinary roots were planted.
Ross graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism. She authored “The Specialty of the House” column for 7 years for the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, co-authored the nationally syndicated Desperation Dinners! food column for 18 years and has co-authored 3 cookbooks: Cheap! Fast! Good! (Workman, 2005), Desperation Entertaining! (Workman, 2002) and Desperation Dinners! (Workman, 1997), which is a best-seller, with more than 250,000 copies in print.
Ross lives in Wilmington, N.C. and has two college-aged children. Join her in her kitchen at www.kitchenscoop.com or in her weekly syndicated newspaper column for weekly updates to everything that begins in the kitchen.

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