Woodrow Wilson Cook
Restaurant quality without restaurant prices. Cooking well as much fun as eating well. This month’s sample recipe, Check out the trailer on YouTube. A cookbook for the foodies on your list Read more about it. The buzz about the cookbook. Press Kit
Author
	Hard science fiction by a real rocket scientist. Hear a podcast on the science behind it. Interviews and reviews. Read more about the book. Writing Author biography Speeches Where is he?
Rocket Scientist
Caltech PhD Thirty years of research and development Professional Resume Distinguished Toastmaster Speeches Author Services
In Memory of my Wife Frugal recipes good enough for a first date With The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook, you will · Have restaurant quality meals without the quality restaurant prices. · Serve something they’d be proud to serve to company. · Not spend too much time cooking or rushing back to the store for some oddball ingredient. · Enjoy a laugh or two from the cookbook. Need a preview? Check out the trailer on YouTube A good read for a starry night Science fiction fans will love Dead Astronauts. It’s the on-orbit adventure of two astronauts who explore an alien probe parked in earth orbit. It arrived from deep space, and sat in silence. Two astronauts are sent from the International Space Station to investigate. They discover the crew died in transit. Exposed to what killed the aliens, can NASA let them come home? Hear a podcast on the science behind it.
The Champagne Taste/ Beer Budget Cookbook Gourmet meals at budget prices from Woodrow Wilson’s kitchen A great meal doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. For the cost of burgers out, you can dine on filet mignon at home. Let The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook show you the way. Page after page of gourmet recipes that are easy to prepare. Whether it’s an intimate dinner for two, or having the boss over for the first time, you’ll be proud to serve from The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook. Enjoy restaurant quality meals without the quality restaurant prices. One meal eaten in rather than eaten out will pay for the book. With the money you’ll save cooking with The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook, you could serve filet mignon every night. Better yet, the money you won’t be spending will add up as fast as an executive’s paycheck. Best of all, the government hasn’t figured out how to tax those benefits…yet. The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook is about more than just eating well and saving money. With instructions like "marinate significant other, set aside" and "open the beer, drink half" the book puts fun back into the kitchen. Read an excerpt. Watch the movie Buy the book The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook is available in print or electronic form from the publisher or your favorite on-line bookstore. Buy it at Booklocker.com, or Amazon.com, or Barnes and Noble, or BooksAMillion, or Powells.com Media please see the attached Press kit.		DEAD ASTRONAUTS Interstellar travel is beyond human science. With today’s technology, it would take years to reach any but the nearest neighbor planets. Interesting places like Titan and Enceleladus are far away. Even those are just local hops compared to travel to the stars. If Moses had launched the lost tribe of Israel in a rocket as fast as an Apollo capsule, they would already be a quarter of a light year away. It would be another eighty thousand years before they reached the nearest star. At ten times that fast, they’d be more than half way there. They would still have a few thousand years to go. Even at a hundred times that fast, the journey would take almost a millennium. The technology to go that fast is a long way off. Somebody out there somewhere might have it today. What if aliens from a neighboring star tried to come here? A lot can go wrong in a thousand years. In Dead Astronauts, an interstellar probe decelerates into earth orbit. Nothing happens. An astronaut team discovers why. Its crew died in transit. Exposed to whatever killed the aliens, can NASA let the explorers come home? Quarantined and running out of air, how can they survive? Dead Astronauts is available from your favorite on-line book dealer. Read an excerpt. You can buy it from my publisher here today. You can also buy it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Books-a-Million. Enjoy the story, but don’t eat the food. The kitchens of NASA aren’t as good as yours. The book tours alien foods and kitchens. The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook presents the kind of food the astronauts dream of coming home to. Media please see the attached press kit.
The buzz about the cookbook Angela Hoy, BookLocker publisher, e-mail, July 19, 2009 I already ate dinner but, now that I've thumbed (well, clicked) through your book a bit, I'm starving! ;) Gloria Uhler, “divaonline” January 14, 2010 www.domestic-divaonline.com … a mix of science and clever kitchen mechanics! North County Times, September 17, 2009 …a cookbook for those who like fine-dining restaurants but can't afford the prices. .... Wilson "reverse-engineered" some of the best dishes he's been served at top restaurants to figure out the ingredients and proportions. …. "The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook" includes recipes for dishes such as bacon-wrapped, crab-stuffed shrimp; pork medallions stuffed with blue cheese; onion-stuffed sirloin; meatball stew; smoked turkey; and more. Del Mar Times, October 9, 2009 Chemist/cook writes book … "for people who want to eat well despite these hard economic times." The recipes are simple enough to be a joy to cook, and good enough to be a joy' to serve … Toast of the Town, September 2009 Bon Appétit by Larry Knight …[This book] will bring scrumptious pleasures to the most discerning palate at a fraction of the cost of your restaurant meal. …. The Coast News, February 19. 2010 RECIPE FOR SUCCESS by Bianca Kaplanek … features more than 100 recipes with easy-to-follow and entertaining instructions such as “open the beer, drink half.” … Del Mar Times & Solana Beach Sun, April 2, 2010 Woodrow Wilson likes cooking up fun … and talking about it! Wilson brings his creativity out of the laboratory and into the kitchen. …[He] produces new taste sensations. His best are presented in his "The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook," Katie Campbell, AShoppersQuest.Com If you are looking for recipes that … add a twist to them to make them taste more like something you would get in a restaurant, this is a great cookbook. Lauren Happel, MidgetMomma.com Another great frugal style cookbook. The name is what caught my attention, it is totally my type of thought process, living with luxury but NEVER paying the real price! It goes for my food as well, we might not pay much for our food but we do have a pretty high standard in our house for what type of food we eat … Damla, SweepstakeLover.BlogSpot.com … the author doesn't forget to make you smile or even laugh! For example, when explaining the preparation of the beer-can chicken, he says "open the beer, drink half". There are such enjoyable sentences scattered inside the book. More reviews

Woodrow Wilson is a Cal Tech Ph.D. and a research scientist who puts real science into fiction. He has detonated rocket fuel, incinerated nerve gas, and studied twelve thousand mile per hour impacts in the laboratory; he has modeled weapon effects, industrial explosions, and high energy lasers in his computer; he has contributed to military programs in medical defense, counterproliferation and counterterrorism. He has a hundred stories to tell.

Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and raised under the star of Sputnik, Wilson was educated for the space race. He earned a Bachelor's in Chemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia then a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Cal Tech in Pasadena. His government contract research in military, medical, and environmental sciences has taught him how big problems are attacked and how bureaucracy makes them bigger.

From his home near the beach north of San Diego, Wilson explores the world from the ocean's depths to near-earth orbit and beyond. His protagonists face pressure and pollution, mortality and morbidity. Wilson knows the citizens of the medical and scientific communities are more than just white lab coats; they're people facing loneliness and insecurity, divorce and infidelity. Read more about them.

Wilson is a widower. He has posted an on-line tribute to his late wife. He enjoys cooking, especially hosting dinner parties for two or four—filled with garlic and good wine. Conversation and laughter. Check below for a favorite simple recipe—check back for others from time to time.

He is the father of two sons and the grandfather of five grandsons. His son Chuck is a civil engineer and Bill is classical guitarist. Visit Bill’s website for samples of his music. Both sons make their homes nearby so the family gets together regularly.

Now a Toastmaster, Wilson has achieved Distinguished Toastmaster status delivering speeches on history, science and engineering. Wilson is available as a speaker for Toastmasters and other functions. See some of his favorite topics. He is past president of the Encinitas Toastmasters club, past Area Governor, past Division Governor, and now Lieutenant Governor Education and Training for a District that runs from San Diego to Yuma. Explore the District’s web site. Visit the club’s site or drop in to a meeting any Thursday night you are in town. There’s a great Toastmasters club near you no matter where you live. Check the Toastmasters International site for the closest ones.

Updated February 22, 2012

Fiction & more | Speech topics | Scientific resume | Author Services

Contact Woodrow Wilson