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About the Author
Ruby P. Puckett, M.A., R.D., F.C.S.I., retired from Shands Hospital at the University of Florida
in Gainesville after serving as director of Food and Nutrition Services for twenty-seven years
and started her own food service management consulting company. Since 1972 she has been the
program director for the Dietary Managers Training Program in which more than 32,000 students
have been enrolled. She is a prolific author, having published ten books, four with coauthors, and
contributed five chapters to textbooks. She has published 350 articles, many peer reviewed, and
given more than 400 talks on food and nutrition topics to professional, educational, civic, and religious
organizations. She has held offices in local, state, and national food and nutrition organizations
and has served on the boards of editorial, charitable, and financial organizations.
In 2003 Puckett was honored with the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award, the highest
honor annually bestowed on a dietitian by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). Other
awards she has received are the International Food Manufacturers Association Silver Plate
Award for Health Care; the Ivy Award of Restaurateurs of Distinction; the Distinguished Pace
Setter Award from the Round Table of Women in Food Service; the ADA Award for Excellence
in Management; the ADA Medallion; and Alumni of the Year Award from College of Human
Science, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama—to name a few. She has traveled worldwide
with three branches of the U.S. military (Marines, Air Force, and Navy) as an evaluator of military
food service for the Ney-Hill and Hennessey Award. She is listed in numerous directories
of Who’s Who.