Mindy Merrell has devoted her 30+ year career to communicating good ideas to home cooks. She is the co-author of Cheater BBQ, as well as two Jack Daniel’s cookbooks.Merrell is the former Drive Thru Review columnist for the Tennessean and recipe columnistfor NFocus magazine. She is a Land Grant University home economics major from Virginia Tech with a deep respect for self-rising biscuits and cornbread thanks to years of working as a young publicist with Linda Carman and the Martha White Test Kitchen in Nashville. Merrell is also a 2014 winner of the show, Chopped.