Sue was the editor of Cuisine at Home’s Holiday Cookies Special Interest Book published in 2005, which was the sixth best-selling title at Lowes Home Improvement Stores during the 2006 holiday season. In 2007, she appeared as a guest on PBS’s Ciao Italia hosted by Mary Ann Esposito, showcasing a recipe from the cookie book. Susan graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. After working in Colorado and Japan, she returned to the States and enrolled in New England Culinary Institute in Vermont, where she received her Associate’s Degree in Culinary Arts in 1997. She received the New England Culinary Institute’s President’s Award for Academic Excellence in 1997.