Contributors

 

Edward Behr is the editor of The Art of Eating. He is the author of 50 Foods and The Food & Wine of France.

Kimberly Behr is the publisher of The Art of Eating.

Lisa Abend is a correspondent for Time magazine. From Copenhagen, she also writes frequently about food and travel for AFAR, Saveur, The New York Times, Vice, and other newspapers and magazines. She is the author of The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen of Ferran Adrià’s elBulli.

Alexis Marie Adams writes about food for various publications. She lives with her family near the Beartooth Mountains of Montana and at times on the Peloponnese Peninsula.

Tamar Adler is the author of An Everlasting Meal and a contributor to Vogue. Her second book, Something Old, Something New was published in 2018.

Nicholas Anderer, while studying art history, spent a year in Rome and decided to become a professional cook. He has cooked for Larry Forgione, Mario Batali, in kitchens in Rome and Milan, at Gramercy Tavern, and is currently executive chef of the Rome-inspired Maialino in New York City. In 2014, he opened the pizzeria Marta.

Michael Anthony is executive chef of Gramercy Tavern and of Untitled at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At Gramercy Tavern, in 2012 he won the James Beard Award for “Best Chef in New York City,” and in 2015 the James Beard Award for “Outstanding Chef in America.” He is the author of The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook and V is for Vegetables.

Joe Appel sells wine at Rosemont Market in Portland, Maine, and writes about wine for the Portland Press Herald.

Eric Asimov is the chief wine critic of The New York Times and the author of How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto and Wine With Food: Pairing Notes and Recipes from The New York Times with recipes by Florence Fabricant.

Bénédict Beaugé lives in Paris and is the author of Aventures de la Cuisine Française, among other books.

Evan Bendickson started cooking bar food in his teens, graduated from Le Cordon Bleu, spent five years sous-cheffing in the Midwest, two years as a charcutier at Cochon Butcher in New Orleans, worked as an affineur and cheesemaker at Jasper Hill in Vermont, and is in now project manager of what is temporarily named VT99 Meats.

Mannie Berk is the founder of the Rare Wine Co. and is a world-renowned expert on Madeira.

Daniella Blake grew up in Africa and New Zealand and studied French, anthropology, and agriculture. She now lives in Montpellier, France, and writes about food and travel, among other things.

Ethan Blake writes about food, religion, and social change. He lives in Brooklyn.

Griffin Bohm is a freelance journalist, originally from Colorado, who lives in Chilean Patagonia, where he runs the brewing operations for a series of gastropubs.

Justin Bolois is the features editor at First We Feast and lives in New York.

Jon Bonné, after nearly a decade as wine editor of The San Francisco Chronicle (the only major US newspaper with a stand-alone wine section) is now the senior contributing editor for the online magazine PUNCH. He’s the author of The New California Wine, The New Wine Rules, and is currently at work on The New French Wine.

Anthony Boutard is co-owner of Ayers Creek Farm in Gaston, Oregon, and author of Beautiful Corn: America’s Original Grain from Seed to Table.

Robert Brown is the co-owner of Reinhold-Brown Gallery in Connecticut, which specializes in rare graphic design, and he publishes the website DiningologyHe has a particular interest in recent gastronomy in popular culture and mass media.

Daniel Bruce grew up in southern Sweden and studied Latin languages. He is a freelance journalist and travels frequently in Europe and Asia to write about wine and whisky among other things.

Rianne Buis, who was raised near Rotterdam, writes for a number of Dutch publications and is the author of two cookbooks in Dutch.

David Campbell’s lifelong affection for tea, and appreciation of Taiwanese culture led to the launch of Tillerman Tea.

Carla Capalbo, a writer and photographer, was born in New York, brought up in Paris and London, and has spent much of her life in Italy. Her books include The Food and Wine Guide to Naples and Campania and Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus.

Lars Carlberg works in the vineyards and cellar at Hofgut Falkenstein, where he was previously an apprentice winegrower. He was a partner in the former importing business Mosel Wine Merchant, and he publishes the website Lars Carlberg: Mosel Wine.

Cory Cartwright is the co-owner of the wine importer Selection Massale.

Alfonso Cevola, a native of California, writes about wine and sells Italian wine in Texas.

Belinda Chang is a sommelier, wine and spirits director and educator.

Martha Cheng is a food and culture writer based in Honolulu.

Lesley Chesterman is a food critic and columnist for The Montreal Gazette.

David Cobbold, the author or co-author of over a dozen books on wine, including Great Wines and Vintages, has worked in wine in France for over 30 years.

Katherine Cole writes about wine for The Oregonian in Portland. She is the author of Voodoo Vintners, about growing biodynamic wine.

Dave Cook writes the blog Eating in Translation; he lives in New York.

Jeff Cox writes about food, wine, and gardening. He lives in Sonoma County, California.

Marc-André Cyr, who comes from an Acadian family, is a bread baker and the founder of A Taste for Grain, a Montreal-based not-for-profit that celebrates local grain and creates conversations among grain artisans, both locally and cross-border.

Nick Czap is a writer and photographer based in San Francisco; his work has appeared in The New York Times, Rhapsody, and other publications.

Levi Dalton, a former sommelier, is wine editor of Eater New York and host of the “I’ll Drink to That!” podcasts.

Barbara Damrosch lives and works at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine. She is co-author of The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook and the author of The Garden Primer and Theme Gardens, and she writes the column “A Cook’s Garden” for The Washington Post.

Jesse Dart writes about food, culture, and society for a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, Roads & Kingdoms, and The Guardian. After earning his M.A. at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy, he is working on a Ph.D. in anthropology.

Manousos Daskalgiannis, native of Crete, worked as an aeronautical engineer before he became a photographer.

Kenneth Davids is editor, writer, and co-founder of Coffee Review. He has published three books on coffee, including Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying.

Mitchell Davis, executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation, is a writer and a scholar with a Ph.D. in food studies from New York University. He is the author of three cookbooks and co-author, with Laurent Gras, of the e-book My Provence.

David Downie is the author of several books including Cooking the Roman Way, a collection of traditional recipes from home cooks and trattorias. He has been based in Paris for three decades and spends part of each year in Burgundy and Italy.

Al Drinkle has a degree in philosophy and is a partner at Metrovino, a wine shop in Calgary, Alberta.

Christie Dufault has been a sommelier at some of the best restaurants in San Francisco; she teaches wine and beverage studies at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.

Avram Dumitrescu is the illustrator of MFK Fisher: Among the Pots and Pans by Joan Reardon and Marfa for the Perplexed by Lonn Taylor and has created art for many US and UK magazines. He lives in Alpine, Texas.

Lolis Eric Elie, a native of New Orleans, is a staff writer for the AMC show Hell on Wheels. Formerly the story editor for the HBO series Treme, he is the author of Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans.

Beth Elon is the author of A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track. She lives in Buggiano Castello, Tuscany.

Alice Feiring publishes The Feiring Line, a natural wine newsletter. She is the author of The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from ParkerizationNaked Wine; and The Dirty Guide to Wine.

Jamie Feldmar is a New York-based writer and editor, content consultant, and cookbook author.

Anya Fernald is the co-founder and CEO of Belcampo, a family of companies where they humanely raise organic meat, a humane certified processing facility Belcampo Butchery and Belcampo Meat Co.

Vanya Filipovic is wine director and co-owner of  Vin Mon Lapin, Vin Papillon, and Joe Beef in Montreal and is an importer of organic and biodynamic wines through her agency Dame-Jeanne.

Diane Flynt  grows cider apples at 3,000 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She founded Foggy Ridge Cider, the first cidery in the South, where she produced orchard-focused cider from 2004 to 2018. She is a four-time nominee and two-time finalist for the James Beard Award for Outstanding Beverage Professional and is writing a book about historic Southern apples.

Susanna Forbes with her husband, James, founded the small-scale Little Pomona Orchard & Cidery in Herefordshire to showcase exceptional fruit. She is a founder of Cider Women, one of the forces behind Full Juice, and the author of The Cider Insider, a guide to mostly European and North American ciders.

Christy Frank is the owner of the Manhattan wine store Frankly Wines.

Georgia Freedman  is a food and travel writer specializing primarily in Asian destinations. She currently lives in the Bay Area after having lived in New York City and the Yunnan Province, in southwestern China.

Jacqueline Friedrich divides her time between Paris and Touraine. She is the author of the award-winning book A Wine & Food Guide to the Loire.

Kevin Gascoyne, a native of England, lives in Montreal, where he has worked as a tea taster and importer for over 20 years. He visits the tea gardens of Darjeeling every year.

Alan Goldfarb writes about wine and food; his work has appeared widely, including in The Wine Spectator, Decanter, and Wine Enthusiast. He lives in Marin County, California.

Jamie Goode is a London-based wine writer who is a wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday ExpressHe is the author of The Science of Wine.

Randall Grahm is the owner of Bonny Doon Vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.

Laurent Gras has earned three Michelin Stars at three different restaurants — Alain Ducasse’s Louis XV in Monte Carlo, Alain Ducasse Paris, and then his own L20 in Chicago. He now works as a restaurant consultant in New York City and develops ideas and recipes with Mitchell Davis, with whom he is co-author of the e-cookbook My Provence.

Gregg is a caricaturist who has worked widely in the United Kingdom, including for the website NME; he lives in Wales.

John Grossmann is the co-author of One Square Inch of Silence, about preserving America’s few remaining quiet places.

Nancy Singleton Hachisu is the author of Japanese Farm Food and Preserving the Japanese Way. She lives with her husband in a traditional Japanese farmhouse on their organic farm.

Nicolette Niman Hahn is an attorney and livestock rancher and the author of Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production and Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms.

Peter Hale is co-proprietor of the wine shop Loire & Maine and of the restaurant Drifter’s Wife, in Portland, Maine.

Sam Hayward is the chef of Fore Street Restaurant in Portland, Maine.

Deirdre Heekin is co-owner with her husband, Caleb Barber, of La Garagista Farm + Winery in Vermont (they’re former co-owners of the restaurant Osteria Pane e Salute); her most recent book is An Unlikely Vineyard.

Ursula Heinzelmann is an independent scholar and the longstanding director of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. A trained chef and sommelier as well as an ex-restaurateur, she works as a freelance wine and food writer based in Berlin, Germany. As an author, she feels most proud of her Beyond Bratwurst: a History of Food in Germany, Vom Käsemachen, and Monsieur Vuong: the Cookbook.

Colu Henry is a writer and recipe developer. Her work has appeared in Food & Wine, The New York Times, and more. Her first book, Back Pocket Pasta, published in 2017, was named one of NPR’s best books of the year, and she is at work on her second cookbook. She just launched “Colu Cooks” on Patreon, where she shares recipes, videos, and newsletters.

Diana Henry writes about food for the Sunday Telegraph and has a column in Stella the newspaper’s magazine. Her nine books include Salt, Sugar, Smoke and recently Simple. She lives in London.

Elisa Herr writes about food, travel, and business. She lives in New Jersey.

Sam Hiersteiner writes about food for various publications; he lives in Washington, DC.

Scott Hocker is the editor-in-chief of Liquor.com.

Susannah Horowitz studied fine art in Istanbul. She is a youth worker for a children’s charity in London and organizes her travel around food.

Emily Horton writes about food and culture from Washington, DC.

Marisa Huff is the author of Aperitivo: The Cocktail Culture of Italy. She has worked for Slow Food and Alice Waters and now, in Padova, is director of communications for the Alajmo restaurants.

John Irving is the author of Pane e football. He lives in Bra, Italy.

Rowan Jacobsen’s books include A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America; Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis; and Apples of Uncommon Character: Heirlooms, Modern Classics, and Little-Known Wonders.

Nancy Harmon Jenkins is the author of more than half a dozen books about food, including The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook and, with her daughter, Sara Jenkins, The Four Seasons of Pasta. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and many other publications.

Sara Jenkins is chef-owner of Ristorante Porsena and the Extra Bar, in New York City, and of Nina June Restaurant in Rockport, Maine. She is the co-author, with Mindy Fox, of Olives & Oranges and, with her mother, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, of The Four Seasons of Pasta.

Holly Jennings writes about food and cocktails. She lives in Virginia.

Pamela Sheldon Johns produces olive oil in Tuscany and writes about traditional Italian cuisine.

David Karp has been writing about and photographing fruit since 1992, including for The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. He is a citrus researcher affiliated with the University of California, Riverside, and a partner in Andy’s Orchard, which grows high-flavored stone fruit in Morgan Hill, California.

Valerie Kathawala is a journalist focused on the wines of Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, and Switzerland, with a particular interest in biodynamics. She is a lifelong student of German culture and language and has lived and worked in both Germany and Austria. In 2020, she co-founded TRINK magazine, which she co-edits and contributes to regularly. She lives in New York City.

Sarah K. Khan travels widely, writes about food, and consults on health, sustainability, and other food topics.

Sarah Kilcoyne,  originally from Ireland, is a watercolorist who lives in Berlin. She’s the only AoE illustrator who ever submitted roughs in watercolor.

Eun Jeung Kim, photographer and cinematographer, lives in Seoul.

Maria Korneitchik is a journalist, author of numerous articles on the cuisines of France and of Central Asia, where she grew up.

Ian Knauer was a food editor for Gourmet magazine. He is the founder of The Farm Cooking School.

Kristine Kowalchuk recently completed a Ph.D. on 17th-century cookery manuscripts. She teaches English at the University of Alberta.

Rachel Laudan, raised on a farm in England and trained as a scientist and historian, now writes about politics and culture and lives in Mexico City.

Rimvydas Laužikas is a digital heritage research and communication professor and dean of the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University. His research covers the communication of cultural heritage, history and heritage-based identities, medieval and early modern times archaeology, and the history of gastronomy.

Drew Lazor based in Philadelphia, has written about food and drink for many magazines and newspapers. He is the co-author of New German Cooking and the author of How to Drink French Fluently and Session Cocktails.

Pascaline Lepeltier grew up in the French region of Anjou; she is a Master Sommelier and award-winning former head sommelier at Rouge Tomate in New York City.

Alice Levitt is a freelance writer in Houston, Texas, focused on food, travel and medicine. She was dining editor and critic at Houstonia magazine and senior food writer at Seven Days newspaper in Vermont, where she was twice named best print/online journalist in the state.

Peter Liem is the author of Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region​, ​the ​publisher of ChampagneGuide.net, and a senior correspondent for Wine & Spirits.

David Lillie, who entered the wine business after playing for 15 years in a jazz orchestra, is an owner of Chambers Street Wines in New York.

Tse Wei Lim was a co-chef and co-owner of Journeyman, a restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts, which closed earlier this year. He has been published in The Boston Globe and is currently working on a book about his experiences as a restaurateur.

Diana Farr Louis is the author of Prospero’s Kitchen, The Secrets of the Greek Isles, Feasting and Fasting in Crete, as well as travel books, and she contributes to culinarybackstreets.com. She lives in Athens.

Ronni Lundy, born in Kentucky and currently living in North Carolina, is the author of Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, and Honest Fried Chicken and Victuals, both about the food of the Appalachian South.

Shuna Lydon has been baking and cooking professionally for more than two decades. She believes deliciousness trumps all else and approaches baking with a “season-to-taste” philosophy. She loves fruit: the seasons are her muse. She has been known to travel great distances and pay far too much for mythical produce.

James MacGuire is a chef and baker, an expert in classical French cooking, and a leading authority on bread. He lives in Montreal.

Michelle Dumitriu-Machtoub teaches and lectures in Val-Morin, Quebec; Trivandrum, India; and Beirut, Lebanon.

Jordan Mackay is a James-Beard-award winning writer on wine, spirits, and food. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Texas Monthly, Decanter, Wine & Spirits, and many other publications. He is the author of Secrets of the Sommeliers (with Rajat Parr), Knife (with John Tesar), and Franklin Barbecue (with Aaron Franklin).

Deborah Madison is a bestselling cookbook author, whose numerous books includ​e In ​My Kitchen and The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone​. A California native, she has lived in New Mexico for over 25 years.

Kelsey Magnine  is a former NCAA Champion golfer and pageant queen, a devout yoga instructor, and committed dog mom who loves hiking; she has spent the majority of her professional career working in health care marketing.

Meg Houston Maker  writes about nature, culture, food, wine, and place, traveling extensively to taste with producers, hear their stories, and see first-hand what links them to their land. Her writing and criticism have appeared in publications including SOMM Journal, Serious Eats, The Tasting Panel, and Alimentumand on her website, Maker’s Table.

Chris Malloy  is a writer from Philadelphia now based in the Southwest. For stories, he has gone foraging in the southern Rockies and Sonoran Desert, trailed a quest to brew ale overnight in a forest, roamed a feral mountain orchard with cider-making scientists, and gone hunting with Apaches. He is the food critic at Phoenix New Times.

Priya Mani is a food writer, designer, and gastro-ethnologist based in Copenhagen and working globally. She is currently writing a Visual Encyclopedia of Indian Foods.

Rebecca Flint Marx studied French cooking and worked as a cook before she began to write. Her work has been published widely, in The New York Times, San Francisco magazine, and elsewhere.

Alessandro Masnaghetti is a wine critic and publisher of the independent review Enogea.

Tony Mastroianni lives in Naples; his writing can found in Lotus-Eater, Able Muse Review, Ambassador, Ink Publishing, The Bicycle Review, and more.

Nancie McDermott is a food writer and cooking teacher based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She focuses on the food of Thailand, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer, and of the American South, where she was born and raised. Her latest book is Fruit: A Savor the South Cookbook.

Harold McGee studied science at Caltech and literature at Yale, where he also taught. In 1984, he published the first edition of his prize-winning reference book On Food & Cooking: The Science & Lore of the Kitchen, currently in its second edition. In 2008, Time magazine named him to its annual list of the world’s most influential people. McGee is also the author of The Curious Cook and Keys to Good Cooking ​and he had a long-running column in The New York Times. He is at work on a book about smells and flavors.​

John McKenna has received four Glenfiddich Awards and the André Simon Special Award for food writing. He lives in County Cork, Ireland.

Peter Meehan has been a restaurant writer for The New York Times, was a founder of Lucky Peach, and was a co-creator of the television show “Mind of a Chef.” He is the author of a number of cookbooks of which his favorite is Lucky Peach Presents 101 Easy Asian Recipes.

Kareh Moraba is a writer from Khuzestan in southern Iran, the land of citrus blossoms and water buffalo ice cream. She divides her time between Iran and the US.

Tom Mylan founded The Meat Hook in Brooklyn, a leader in the US movement toward traditional butchering of whole animals raised on pasture. He lives in Vermont.

Max Nathanson, originally from Colorado, is a freelance photojournalist and a graduate student in international development at the University of Oxford, where his research includes the politics of sustainable development.

Charles Neal imports French brandy and wine. He is the author of Calvados: The Spirit of Normandy.

Val Neff-Rasmussen, whose degree is in art history and psychology, works as a food finder and writer for Zingerman’s Mail Order.

Hanna Neuschwander is communications director of World Coffee Research, the author of the guide Left Coast Roast, and a former barista; she lives in Portland, Oregon.

John Newton is a journalist, novelist, and teacher. His books include Wogfood, The Food of Spain, and Beppi: A Life in Three Courses. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Geoffrey F. Norman is a freelance writer and sometimes tea blogger from Portland, Oregon. For nearly 15 years, he has spent his free time cataloguing tea tastings and the stories behind them.

Emily Nunn writes The Department of Salad, a highly energetic and popular newsletter that approaches its subject in the broadest terms. She has been an arts editor at The New Yorker, where she created the column “Tables for Two,” and she has been an award-winning features reporter for The Chicago Tribune. Her writing about the arts and about food has been widely published. She is also the author of a memoir, The Comfort Food Diaries. She lives in Atlanta.

Garrett Oliver is brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery, author of The Brewmaster’s Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food, and editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer. He has hosted more than 900 beer tastings, dinners, and cooking demonstrations in 15 countries.

Sandy Oliver a historian of American food, is the author of Maine Home Cooking and​ Food in Colonial and Federal America. She lives on an island on the coast of Maine.​

Zora O’Neill is the author of the Lowell Thomas Award-winning All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World, and she has written more than a dozen Rough, Lonely Planet, and Moon travel guides.

Fabio Parasecoli is a professor of food studies at the New School in New York City, and he teaches at the University of Bologna and at University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy. For many years, he was the US correspondent for the magazine Gambero Rosso.

 

Rajat Parr, born in Calcutta, is wine director for the Mina Group’s restaurants, a partner in the restaurant RN74 (San Francisco and Seattle), co-author of Secrets of the Sommeliers, and a partner in Sandhi wines and Domaine de la Côte, both in the Santa Rita Hills of California.

Melissa Pasanen writes about food, farming, and sustainability. She is the food editor for Vermont Life magazine, a regular contributor to Vermont Public Radio, and has written for The Art of Eating since 2000.

Guélia Pevzner was born in Moscow and lives in France, where she writes for Fine Art, Paris Match, and Elle, as well as publishing columns in Russia and broadcasting on the BBC and RFI.

Archana Pidathala is the author of Five Morsels of Love, based on a cookbook left unfinished by her grandmother, about the traditional Andhra cuisine of southeast India. She lives in Bangalore.

Francis Poirel is the former proprietor of Château de Suronde in the Quarts de Chaume in Anjou.

Jim Poris was senior editor of Food Arts magazine, where he variously created, wrote, and edited features. He was previously one of the opening cooks at the restaurant Picholine in New York City, after graduating from the French Culinary Institute, and before that he had a career as a sports journalist, mostly with the New York Daily News.

Kevin Powers, a former labor mediator, lives in Buffalo, New York.

Shankar Raman is an associate professor in the literature faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Henry Rathvon creates crossword puzzles for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal with his partner Emily CoxHe is working on a collection of poems about food.

Lee Reich, a garden and orchard consultant, is the author of Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden.

Deborah Reid is a writer and chef based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Civil Eats, Fine Cooking, Sift, and Eater.

Véronique Rivest is one of the most respected sommeliers in Canada, the winner of repeated competitions. In Tokyo in 2013, she was the first woman to make the podium when she took second place at the World’s Best Sommelier competition. Her wine bar, Soif, is opposite Ottawa in Gatineau, Quebec.

Camille Rivière imports natural wines, dividing her time among Paris, the French countryside, and New York City.

Neal Rosenthal is a wine importer and beekeeper who lives in the Hudson Valley. He wrote Reflections of a Wine Merchant.

Alice Ross teaches historical cookery at Hearth Studios in Smithtown, New York. She is a co-founder of Culinary Historians of New York and served as consultant to Colonial Williamsburg.

Yukari Sakamoto is trained as a chef, baker, and sommelier and is an expert in the distilled beverage shōchū. She was raised in Minnesota and lives in Japan.

Harris Salat is the co-author of three Japanese cookbooks, Takashi’s Noodles, Japanese Hot Pots, and The Japanese Grill.

Bianca Sanon is a Miami-based sommelier, previously general manager and beverage director of the James Beard-nominated restaurant Boia De. She is the co-owner/operator of Paradis Books & Bread, a bookstore-wine bar-bakery in North Miami.

Corinnna Sargood is the illustrator of a number of books, including The Virago Book of Fairy Tales and Patience Gray’s Honey From Weed.

Soyoung Scanlan, a former biochemist, is the owner and cheesemaker of Andante Dairy in Santa Rosa, California.

Debbie Schembri, a private chef, has sailed from the Caribbean to New Zealand and beyond, before interning at Coi in San Francisco and Noma in Copenhagen. Now, in her home of Malta, she works with The Mediterranean Culinary Academy, teaching workshops for home cooks using local and seasonal produce. She also writes and works as a food stylist for print and film.

Franz Scheurer writes about wines, spirits, and restaurants and publishes the Australian Gourmet Pages website. He lives in Sydney.

David Schildnecht, a former restaurateur trained in philosophy, spent 25 years in the wine trade. His tasting reports were a fixture of Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar, then of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, and now appear in Vinous. He is a contributor to Wine & Spirits, The World of Fine Wine, and Vinaria; responsible for the German and Austrian entries in the fourth edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine; and a co-author of the seventh edition of Robert Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide.

Jamie Schler writes the blogs Life’s a Feast and Plated Stories; she lives in Nantes, France.

Derrick Schneider is a programmer and writer; he lives in Berkeley, California.

Ed Schoenfeld has created dozens of restaurants as an owner-operator and as a consultant. Among them are Chinatown Brasserie, Pig Heaven, Chop Suey Louie’s Litchi Lounge. His current project is Red Farm, a Chinese restaurant in New York.

Kevin Shaffer works in the wine trade and writes wine-related short stories.

Hank Shaw is the author of Duck, Duck, Goose and Hunt, Gather, Cook; he produces the website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.

Hiroko Shimbo is the author of The Japanese Kitchen: 250 Recipes in a Traditional Spirit, The Sushi Experience, and Hiroko’s American Kitchen: Cooking with Japanese Flavors. She lives in New York City.

Whitney Shubert manages the French portfolio for the New York-based wine importer Polaner Selections. She previously worked in wine distribution in her home state of Oregon and served as director of the International Pinot Noir Celebration.

Silvestro Silvestori grew up Italian-American and moved back to Italy as a teenager, by himself. He came to food and wine through working agrarian jobs, while studying the humanities; for the last 18 years he has taught the food and wine of the Salento to students from 59 countries at his cooking school, The Awaiting Table, in southern Puglia.

Julia Skinner is the founder of Root, Atlanta’s fermentation and food history company, as well as an author, artist, herbalist, and wildcrafter. Her newsletter is on Substack, and she is the author of Our Fermented Lives.

Charlene Smith is a widely published journalist and an authorized biographer of Nelson Mandela.

Peter Andrey Smith writes about food, agriculture, and science; he lives in Brooklyn.

Michael Snyder is a freelance food and culture writer based in Mumbai. He is a frequent contributor to Lucky Peach, and his work has appeared in T Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere, including a slew of publications in India.

Benjamin North Spencer moved to Mount Etna in Sicily in 2012 after making wine for more than a decade in California. He directs Etna Wine School, an educational and consulting company, and is the author of the just-published The New Wines of Mount Etna.

Kritika Suratkal was born and raised in Pune, India. She is a trained chef by profession but hopes to build a career working in the areas of food security and policy.

Patrik St-Vincent  is the sommelier at Le Filet Restaurant in Montreal.

Bonnie Stern, through her weekly National Post column, many cookbooks, and former cooking school helped teach generations of Canadians about the pleasures of the table.

Jonathan Stevens is head baker and co-owner, with Cheryl Maffei, of Hungry Ghost Bread in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Tara Stevens is a food and travel writer, culinary guide, and cookery teacher. She splits her time between Barcelona, Spain, and Fez, Morocco.

Jude Stewart lives in Chicago and writes about design and culture for Slate, The Atlantic, Fast Company, and Gastronomica, and other publications. She is author of ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color and Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage & Other Graphic Patterns.

Petra Tanos works for the Rainforest Alliance, promoting sustainable agriculture on coffee and cocoa farms.

Andrew Tarlow, the farseeing, formative Brooklyn restauranteur, opened Diner in Williamsburg in 1999, followed by other enterprises, including Reynard in the Wythe Hotel.

Emily Kaiser Thelin is the author of Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert’s Renegade Life (Grand Central Life & Style). A two-time finalist for James Beard awards and a former editor at Food & Wine, she is currently editorial director for recipes for the meal-kit delivery service Sun Basket and lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and daughter.

Simon Thibault is a Halifax-based food writer, journalist, editor, and instructor in journalism at the University of King’s College, Halifax. His work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post, CBC Radio, Radio-Canada, and more. His first book, Pantry and Palate: Remembering and Rediscovering Acadian Food, was shortlisted for the Taste Canada Awards in 2018.

John Thorne is the author of the food letter Simple Cooking and of numerous books about cooking.

Naomi Thorner, while in graduate school for comparative literature, worked in restaurants, where she discovered an interest in food and wine. In addition to wine writing, she works on development communications for nonprofits. She’s based in Brooklyn, New York.

Emma Toogood lives and works in London, where she grew up. She is an exam-qualified accountant who studied French and Spanish at university and also writes about food and restaurants.

Isabel Torrealba is a social anthropologist turned journalist, currently studying for a master’s degree in cultural reporting and criticism. She grew up in Oaxaca, Mexico, where her parents were chefs. Her work has appeared in Edible Austin, Mujer Texas, and Eater.

Amy Trubek trained as a cultural anthropologist and chef. She is the author of Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession; The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir; and Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today.

Vikram Vij is co-owner, with his wife Meeru Dhalwala, of  Vij’s Restaurant and Rangoli Restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are the authors of the cookbook Vij’s Elegant and Inspired.

Linda Milagros Violago has worked as a sommelier in restaurants in ten countries, including Mugaritz in Spain.

Luisa Weiss writes the blog The Wednesday Chef and is the author of My Berlin Kitchen and Classic German Baking.

Rachel Wharton is a James Beard award-winning freelance food writer and editor based in New York City.

Anthony Wilson is a jazz guitarist and composer from Los Angeles.

Molly Wizenberg writes the blog Orangette and is the author of A Homemade Life and Delancey.

Prairie Stuart-Wolff, a writer and photographer, produces the online journal Cultivated Days (cultivateddays.com), which investigates and celebrates washoku, traditional Japanese cuisine. She lives in Kyushu, Japan.

Jarrett Wrisley divides his time between Bangkok, where with an Italian partner he owns several non-Thai restaurants, and Italy where, with the same partner, he is developing a sheep farm and dairy and working on a book about Roman cooking. He has traveled through much of Asia and lived for a number of years in Shanghai, where he began his career as a freelance writer focusing on food cultures and traditions in China and Southeast Asia.

Olivia Wu is the the community manager for the food team at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Winnie Yang is a food writer and an editor for the site The Wirecutter and was previously the managing editor of Culinary Backstreets and of The Art of Eating.

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