Alexandra Shytsman is a recipe developer, food writer, photographer, and founder of The New Baguette blog (thenewbaguette.com) where she shares practical, healthy recipes for busy people. Her passion for home cooking and breezy entertaining is captured in her first cookbook, Friendsgiving: Celebrate Your Family of Friends. Alex's work has been featured on Yahoo! Food, the New York Daily News, Refinery29, MindBodyGreen, and Gothamist. Originally from Ukraine, she moved to New York at a young age and has lived there ever since.