Randi is a friend of mine that I met in Beijing.She is known as the muffin lady.She is a high altitude food specialist.Her books Baking at High Altitude won the best First Cookbook in the World by Gourmand World Cookbook in 2004.Her second book is Sharing Mountain Recipes and looks like a very interesting book.She has a very bubbly personality and is very easy to talk to.We spent time talking about food, publishing ,writing and all other things that one talks about.

Here is a link to her very interesting website.

http://www.themuffinlady.com/