Deborah Markus required the assistance of several bricks of dark chocolate to write this bio. Her single act of childhood defiance was stealing her sister´s chocolate Easter bunny, jumping on the kitchen table, and gnawing the ears off in order to disprove her parents´ misguided theory that she was allergic to cocoa butter. Although she is a freelance writer, copy-editor, and teacher, her favorite job ever was that stint at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory when she was seventeen, where she got to eat truffles for breakfast every morning and make twenty-pound batches of fudge (a skill which now, sadly, eludes her, though she does still often start the day with a hit of the good brown stuff). Deborah makes the best darned brownies this side of the Rockies. She lives in California with her husband and son, but would consider moving to Florida where, as she learned on a recent visit, you have to eat all chocolate immediately on purchasing it or it will melt in your purse. She started believing in guardian angels the day she was granted the title of Chocolate Editor.

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