Rappaport, Rachel: - Rachel Rappaport is a Baltimorean from a long line of Baltimoreans. She is also a professional recipe developer and author of several cookbooks. While she has created recipes for dozens of national brands and for publications such as the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, Food52, and Parade Magazine she has a great personal interest in regional foods and food history has been recreating "lost" and regional recipes and sharing them, among other dishes, on her award winning recipe blog (coconutandlime.com) for nearly two decades.