Elissa Altman is the author of the memoirs Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw and Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking. She writes the regular Washington Post column “Feeding My Mother,” and the James Beard Award-winning blog Poor Man’s Feast. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Oprah Magazine, and on the TEDx stage.