Bill Collins

Bill Collins is the author of two forthcoming Storey Basics titles, Knife Skills and Making & Using Vinegar. He graduated from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. He cooked at the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and directed new product development at Harbor Sweets (Salem, Massachusetts) prior to establishing Chef Bill, Inc., in 2001. He has been a professional chef, a personal chef, a food-industry consultant, and a cooking instructor, giving classes everywhere from community colleges to Whole Foods to Stonewall Kitchen. As Chef Bill, he has written newspaper columns on kitchen skills, and he maintains a blog at www.chefbill.com. He lives in Pelham, Massachusetts.