Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin on Her Cookbook, "St. Pete Eats"

<p>Kanika Tomalin has a lot on her plate. She works under St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman as deputy mayor and city administrator, serving the city’s 270,000 residents. On top of that, Tomalin recently published a cookbook. <a href="https://stpeteeats.org/" target="_blank"><i>St. Pete Eats</i></a> is a collection of healthy recipes from some of the city’s best-known chefs— including a few from Tomalin’s own kitchen and one that pays tribute to her late husband, Terry Tomalin, who for years wrote a popular outdoors column for the <i>Tampa Bay Times. The Zest’s</i> Dalia Colón chats with Deputy Mayor Tomalin about what inspired her to write the cookbook, some of her favorite recipes and the best St. Pete restaurants you probably haven't tried.</p>