Kevin Lee Jacobs is the author and creator of the popular food, garden, and lifestyle website A Garden for the House (www.agardenforthehouse.com). Kevin creates unique recipes that rely on simple, fresh ingredients, usually obtained from local farms and his own herb and vegetable gardens. His kitchen is located in a 19th-century house in New York's Hudson Valley. Kevin restored the 1826 Federal structure which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Kevin is a journalist, an award-winning classical pianist, and a published songwriter. To his utter embarrassment, he once wrote press releases for Penthouse Magazine.