Frederick Douglass Opie is professor of history and foodways at Babson College. He is the author of several books, including Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black and Latino Coalitions in New York From Protest to Public Office.
Ari Daniel is a freelance journalist who has contributed to Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Radiolab, Here & Now, The World and NOVA.
Sruthi Pinnamaneni is a freelance radio and video journalist based in New York and Vienna. Her work has appeared on various shows, including Marketplace, Freakonomics, Radiolab and Studio 360.
Jennifer 8. Lee is a journalist, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, cofounder of literary studio Plympton, a founding trustee of Awesome Food, a lead organizer of Hacks/Hackers, and a Good Person to Know at Upworthy.
Rebecca Sheir is the host of Metro Connection on WAMU 88.5 in Washington, D.C. She previously served as host of AK on Alaska Public Radio Network and reported for NPR member station KTOO in Juneau. Her stories have won numerous awards, airing on public radio programs such as All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, Latino USA, Only a Game, Here & Now, Interfaith Voices and Voice of America.
Marcella Hazan, the acknowledged godmother of Italian cooking in America, is the author of The Classic Italian Cookbook, More Classic Italian Cooking, Marcella's Italian kitchen, Essentials of Italian Cooking, and Marcella Cucina.
John T. Edge is a writer, author and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. He is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun, a columnist for the Oxford American, a columnist for Southern Living and a contributor to The New York Times. His work has been featured in the Best Food Writing compilation. He won the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2012. He has written or edited more than a dozen books.
Ruth Reichl is a writer, editor and author. She was the editor in chief of Gourmet Magazine for 10 years until its closing, a restaurant critic for The New York Times, and restaurant critic for and food editor of the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of several books including Garlic and Sapphires. She is the recipient of six James Beard Awards and several awards from the Association of American Food Journalists.
Angela Kim, who blogs at Angela is Here, writes about the food scene in Los Angeles. A former public radio producer, she serves as social media editor for Yahoo!.
Laura Kaliebe manages The Splendid Table's website.