Leanne Brown, a Canadian-born food studies scholar and avid home cook, wrote Good and Cheap as the capstone for her master’s in food studies from New York University. After it went viral online as a PDF that today has been downloaded over 950,000 times, she published a print edition that won the 2015 IACP Judge’s Choice Award. Leanne was also named one of the 2015 Forbes ’30 Under 30’ and received a “Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink” award from Food & Wine and Fortune magazines. She and her husband live in Brooklyn.