Food critic and cookbook author Rosa Jackson is fascinated with Nice and its unique culinary tradition, a result of its history and climate. She wrote about food for a daily newspaper in Canada before moving to France in 1995 to work as an interpreter at the Cordon Bleu cooking school and run Paris Market Tours.

She has edited four editions of the Time Out Paris Eating and Drinking Guide (published by Penguin), a guide to more than 850 restaurants, bars and cafés; updated several chapters of the 2006 Time Out South of France and Fodor's Provence and the Côte D'Azur guides; and written about food for a number of magazines and newspapers, including Food & Wine, Fine Cooking and Eating Well in the United States, Food and Travel magazine and The Evening Standard newspaper in Britain, and Eat magazine in Japan. She is the Paris correspondent for Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine and writes a monthly restaurant column for the subscription-only newsletter Paris Notes www.parisnotes.com.

She divides her time between Nice and Paris, where she runs the custom-designed itinerary service www.edible-paris.com. Her first cookbook, Petites recettes pour grandir, was published by Marabout (a division of Hachette) in March 2004, and her second cookbook, La cuisine des paresseuses, came out in February 2005. Her latest book, Gourmet Paris, won the Gourmet World Cookbook award for best travel guidebook in 2007. She is married to a Frenchman who enjoys washing dishes and has a food-loving six-year-old son, Sam. To read more about Rosa's life in Nice and Paris, visit her food blog!