Melissa Guerra grew up in the Wild Horse Desert of Texas on the Santillana Ranch, her family's home since 1791. Fascinated by the food she grew up with, she cooked regional specialties for visitors to the ranch and began teaching cooking classes. In 1998, she debuted as host of The Texas Provincial Kitchen, a public television cooking show that ran for four years throughout Texas and nationally, and wrote a cookbook by the same name. Today she runs Your Mexican Marketplace, a company that sells Mexican foods, kitchen equipment, and housewares. Visit her Web site at melissaguerra.com.