Please Don't Call It Pound Cake

greg patent is an award-winning cookbook author, food journalist, and radio host and a former television cooking-show host and zoology professor. He grew up in Shanghai during World War II and immigrated to San Francisco at the age of eleven. Baking is his passion. His cookbook Baking in America won the James Beard Award in 2003. His most recent book is A Baker's Odyssey, winner of the 2009 Cordon d'Or Award. Pound cake is one of his favorite foods.