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

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. St. Pete Eats 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 Tampa Bay Times. The Zest’s 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.