Patti Breitman is the co-author of How To Eat Like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want To Be One and How To Say No Without Feeling Guilty. She is the founder and director of the Marin Vegetarian Education Group and a former food columnist for VegNews magazine. As an animal and health advocate, Breitman is a publishing consultant to numerous leaders in the vegetarian movement and teaches cooking classes in the San Francisco Bay Area.