I want to thank my cats for supporting me mentally while I was closed down and avoiding the world as I was trying to come up with good ideas for the book. I can't thank my editors Joanna Finchen and Kedar Bhat enough for the insight and help I got from them. For their kindness, support, and mainly their patience with me when I was struggling to fit my ideas into the recipe format.

A very big thanks to my technical reviewer, Chris Valleskey, for the detailed insights and suggestions that made this book better and shaped this book to be a really great one.

Thanks to Oren Ofer, which helped inspire the last recipe. To my students, co-workers, and friends at 02geek.com. Mom, for helping me through the creation of my first book. Nature and Earth for giving me a great place to be in, and the ocean for the great view throughout the writing of this book. Thanks to God for always opening up new doors to me in the most unexpected ways.

And last but definitely not the least, thanks for buying / renting / lending / reading this book.