Season 5

Bio Called by the Chicago Tribune , “An earthy, red-headed yarn-spinning woman,” Crescent Dragonwagon is the much-published author of fifty books in five genres, numerous magazine articles, and two blogs. She is the developer...

Bio: Erika Kubick is a Chicago native and the cheesemonger-turned-preacher behind CheeseSexDeath.com, a website devoted to educating, exciting, and empowering cheese sluts everywhere. Through sultry cheese porn and educationa...

Bio: John Birdsall grew up near San Francisco and learned to cook at Greens Restaurant in that city. He spent the next seventeen years in professional kitchens there and in Chicago, and did some writing as a side gig, includi...

Bio: Christopher Shaffer is Dean of Library Services at Troy University. A former history teacher, he taught in Slovakia in the first months after it became an independent nation in 1993, and also returned there for another t...

Constance Kirker is a retired Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Arts at Penn State University Brandywine, with a continuing research focus on art history, international arts education and culinary history. ...

Bio "I have been a computer programmer, graphic designer, decorative painter, and composition instructor. In 2010, my husband, Steven, and I opened South Edison, a restaurant in Montauk, NY (now in the capable hands of chef F...

Lisa Steele Bio With an audience of nearly a million followers that spans the globe, 5th generation chicken keeper and "eggspert" Lisa Steele is well-recognized as the creative force behind Fresh Eggs Daily®, the most popular...

Laura Cortes Bio "I am a home baker on a learning journey. Baking is one of my biggest passions and I am eager to learn it all! What a better way to learn from the most fabulous authors and chefs …

Although Tamearra Dyson started her career as a certified nursing assistant and endoscopy technician at Marin General Hospital, she ultimately decided she wanted to pursue her passion for food. She grew up watching her elders...

Bio: Peter Y. Sussman, 80, spent 29 years as an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, leaving in 1993 to pursue an independent career writing and editing. He has continued to devote much of his time to journalism, as a …

Biography Peter Hertzmann is an autodidactic polymath with a strong contrarian bent who likes to provide an alternative approach about all aspects of food. His three books are Knife Skills Illustrated: A User's Manual and the...

Bio I began thinking about writhing Macedonia: The Cookbook a long time ago. It took my husband and I about 6 years to complete and my drive to create a cookbook to showcase the vibrant and colorful foods of Macedonia …

Bio Having overcome her own eating, food, weight, and body image challenges, Anne Poirier wrote the book ‘ The Body Joyful - My journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance’ to share her highly personal and life-changing jou...

Bio Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific . He has authored or edited 25 books on food and co-authored "The Lost Art of Real Cooking" and "The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home." Albala …

Food Historian at the University of the Pacific. Author of Eating Right in the Renaissance, Food in Early Modern Europe, Cooking in Europe 1250-1650, The Banquet, Beans (2008 IACP Jane Grigson Award) and Pancake.THE LOST ART ...

Bio: I call myself a “Storyteller Cook”, because everything I do is to do with cooking and telling stories through the medium of food. I want to inspire the world to cook and eat more Polish food. I have written …

Bio: Adrian received an A.B in International Relations from Stanford University in 1991, and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995. From 1999 to 2001, Miller served as a special assistant to President Bill...

Bio I’ve always loved the sights and smells of the kitchen. My mother was (and is) an excellent cook, and as a kid, I was her little shadow as she prepared supper each night. From her, I gained a deep, …

I am a freelance writer who is willing to take the extra time to communicate clearly with you, find great sources of information, and re-write as many times as needed to create solid, engaging content that helps you further y...

Bio Victoria Slind-Flor has been a journalist since the early 1970s. In the course of her career she has worked for the Bellevue American (now the Eastside Journal), the West Bank Guide, New Orleans Business, the Los Angeles ...

A best seller on Amazon , with a five- star rating and rave reviews, Brownies for Breakfast is a cookbook you’ll actually enjoy reading and using . Frank, complete, simple: favorite sweets and comfort foods, reimagined as wh...

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