The author's previous collection, Stories Savory and Sweet won the 2024 Midwest Independent Publishers Award for humor. With this, her final collection and signature wit and wisdom, Margie Zats invites you to savor once again the quotidian and extraordinary in equal measure. From a heartfelt meditation on what makes the perfect nosh to recounting the time the President gracefully declined her offer of a home cooked brisket dinner, And So, Adieu explores the joys of a life well lived.

Margie Zats was a Minneapolis-based author and chef. She was a graduate of École de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris, and worked as a cooking instructor, a food columnist, and the long-time creator of the pastry gift-baskets "Margie's Marvelous Munchies." Her other books include Great Recipes from Someone Who Loves to Eat, A Platter of Chatter: Charming Stories and Terrific Recipes, Stories from Someone Older Than Television, and two novels, Alexandra the Grate and Dancing on a Silver Moon. Her most recent collection, Stories Savory and Sweet, won the 2024 MIPA prize for humor.