Linda Beaulieu is an award-winning food and travel writer. She is the author of The Providence & Rhode Island Cookbook (Globe Pequot Press), Divine Providence: An Insider's Guide to the City's Best Restaurants, and The Grapevine Guide to Rhode Island's Best Restaurants. She received the prestigious James Beard Award for magazine writing for an article on Native American food, which appeared in the National Culinary Review. She splits her time between Lincoln and Narragansett, Rhode Island.