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Iona Konwaler was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Poland. Long ago she discovered that "vegetables" means more than boiled potatoes and cabbage. For more years than she cares to admit, she has worked as an RN in a major hospital. She has an interest in ballet and is an avid spectator and participant on cooking shows. She has traveled widely, always with the objective of sampling local cuisine and wines. She has taken short courses in cooking under many of the master chefs in such places as New York, Acapulco, Puerto Rico, Tuscany, and the Loire Valley. She has an uncanny ability to use her taste buds to determine the ingredients in any dish.

After leaving the farm in Ohio, Dan Bellware earned a couple of engineering degrees and for many years was a consultant for a major corporation. He now owns and operates his own company. Even growing up he was accustomed to well prepared food (oh yes - biscuits from scratch every morning) but after leaving the farm and during sojourns to many major cities, (aided and abetted by a liberal corporate expense account) he discovered a whole new world of culinary tastes, textures, and aromas. His education was enhanced by his late wife who collected - and used - some fifteen hundred cookbooks, and then has been carried to new heights by his association with Iona.

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