Longtime South Florida cooking teacher Carole Kotkin manages the Ocean Reef Club Cooking School. She is the food editor of Wine News magazine and the co-author of Mmmmiami: Tempting Tropical Tastes for Home Cooks Everywhere (Henry Holt, 1998). Carole compiled the first Zagat guide to South Florida restaurants and was the founding co-chair of the American Institute of Wine and Food's South Florida chapter. Miami has been her home for more than 40 years.

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