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Karen Jean Matsko Hood
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Author and Poet
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About the Author and Cook
Karen Jean Matsko Hood has always enjoyed cooking, baking, and experimenting with recipes. At this time Hood is working to complete a series of cookbooks that blends her skills and experience in cooking and entertaining. Hood entertains large groups of people and especially enjoys designing creative menus with holiday, international, ethnic, and regional themes. Hood is publishing a cookbook series entitled the Cookbook Delights Series, in which each cookbook emphasizes a different food ingredient or theme. The first cookbook in the Cookbook Delights Series is Apple Delights Cookbook. Hood is working to complete a series of Hood and Matsko Family Cookbooks with many recipes handed down from her family heritage and others emerging from more current family traditions. She has been a guest speaker on talk radio shows and has been invited to speak on various topics. Hood was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. As an undergraduate, she attended the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota, and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. She attended the University of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana. Hood received a B.S. Degree in Natural Science from the College of St. Benedict and minored in both Psychology and Secondary Education. Upon her graduation, Hood and her husband taught science and math on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hood has completed postgraduate classes at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. In May 2001, she completed her Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. She has taken postgraduate classes at Lewis and Clark College on the North Idaho college campus in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; through Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana; University of Washington in Seattle, Washington; Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington; and Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington. Hood is working on research projects to complete her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Hood resides in
Greenacres, Washington, along with her husband, thirteen children, and foster
children. Her interests include writing, teaching, and volunteering as a court
advocate in the juvenile court system for abused and neglected children. Hood
is a literary advocate for youth and adults. Her hobbies include cooking,
baking, photography, indoor and outdoor gardening, and the cultivation of
unusual flowering plants and orchids. She enjoys raising several specialty
breeds of animals including Icelandic horses, bichon frises, cockapoos,
Icelandic sheepdogs, and a few rescue cats. Hood also enjoys bird-watching and
finds all aspects of nature precious. She demonstrates a passionate
appreciation of the environment and a respect You may contact Ms. Hood through the publisher’s office: Karen Jean Matsko Hood c/o Whispering Pine Press, Inc. P.O. Box 1469 Spokane Valley, WA 99037-1469 USA Phone: (509) 927-0404│Fax: (509) 927-1550 Website: www.karenjeanmatskohood.com Email: Karen@karenjeanmatskohood.com You may order Ms. Hood’s other books including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for adults and children, by requesting them from your local bookstore.
Featured Book of the Month- Cookbook Huckleberry Delights Cookbook - A Collection of
Huckleberry Recipes
Inside You’ll Find: *Cultivation Tips *Huckleberry Stories, Festivals *Delicious Huckleberry Recipes *Information about Huckleberry Varieties *Facts about the Huckleberry *Measurement Conversion Chart *Fascinating Huckleberry Folklore *Nutritional Information *Helpful Index and Glossary
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