TANYA ZERYCK is a stay-at-home mom who, between reading cookbooks and whipping up culinary delights for her family, is a prolific gardener. Her parents, JOHN AND MARINA BEAR, are the authors of The Something Went Wrong Now What Do I Do Cookbook (the original edition of How to Repair Food) and Not Your Mother's Cookbook. John is also the coauthor, with Margaret Fox, of Café Beaujolais, Morning Food, and Evening Food.