Bettina Mueller is the author of A Taste of Heaven and Earth (Harper Perennial) which was nominated for a Julia Child Award, and The World in a Bowl of Tea (Harper Perennial).
At various times she's been a cook on a working tugboat, a news photographer, owner and chef of a pioneering vegetarian restaurant, and executive of a cutting edge Internet company.
In addition to her interest in food and media, she's been a lifelong student of Zen, the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and the natural world.
In her latest book A Tea Garden in Tivoli she draws from her three decades long study of the Japanese Tea tradition where great—even legendary—gardens are small by necessity, Bettina sets out to turn her 1/8 of an acre backyard in the small village of Tivoli, New York into a private world of beauty and tranquility.
