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John Michael Lerma
Author of
JOHN MICHAEL LERMA’S GARDEN COUNTY
“Where Everyone Is Welcome to Sit at the Table”
John Michael Lerma was featured on the Food Network Special--All American Pie Championship November 2006 baking his Vidalia Onion Pie. Most recently, John Michael appeared in the Food Network Challenge--The Great American Pie Cook-Off which aired in November 2007.
John Michael was a winner at the 2005, 2006, and 2007 National Pie Championship in Celebration, Florida sponsored by Crisco and published Garden County — Where Everyone is Welcome to Sit at the Table which was a nominee for Best Cookbook of the Year at the 2006 Independent Book Publisher Awards in Washington, DC.
He is a frequent guest on KARE 11's Saturday Morning News Show and Showcase Minnesota. He also appears on WCCO Sunday Morning Live Show, KSTP, and Cities 97 morning show with BT & Lee.
John Michael the director of Tuscan Gathering and Caribe Gathering culinary vacations in Tuscany and the Caribbean. He is currently working on this second cookbook and writes a monthly column for Lavender Magazine titled "Word of Mouth". John Michael is also a member of Slow Food USA. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his partner Chad and their daughter Heather. John Michael is a Corporate Chef at Cooks of Crocus Hill, in St. Paul, MN and contributing chef at The Chef's Gallery in Stillwater, MN and Kitchen Window in Minneapolis, MN.
John Michael received a degree in English from the University of North Dakota and has several short stories, poems, and plays published in regional and academic texts. He is a recipient of the Gladys Boen Award for Fiction.
Visit www.GardenCounty.info to sign up for a culinary vacation of a lifetime.
Sunday January 20 2:00 PM - 3-A-Day Dairy Stage
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