CONTRIBUTORS

Nina Bai is a science writer based in San Francisco.

Judie Baker is Ashley Goldsmith’s grandmother. She grew up in Great Neck, New York, before moving to Jericho, where she made matzo brei for her five children and nine grandchildren.

David Barber has been cooking professionally for more than forty years. In 2005 he founded Picklopolis Pickles, the Kingdom of the Brine, and has never looked back.

Aralyn Beaumont is the research editor of Lucky Peach. She lives in San Francisco and loves to ride horses almost as much as she loves to eat eggs.

Sascha Bos is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Render, LA Weekly, and East Bay Express. She has edited titles including Little Flower Baking, Das Cookbook, and Drink: Los Angeles and spent a year researching nineteenth-century cookbooks and feminism for her UC Berkeley honors thesis.

Marian Bull is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her preferred egg-cooking technique is Caroline Fidanza’s scramble.

Rinco and Susie Cheung are the owners of China Café, which opened in Los Angeles’s Grand Central Market in 1959.

Liz Crain is the author of Food Lover’s Guide to Portland; Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull.; Grow Your Own: Understanding, Cultivating, and Enjoying Cannabis; and the forthcoming Hello, My Name Is Tasty: Global Diner Favorites from Portland’s Tasty Restaurants. She is also a fiction writer, a longtime writer on Pacific Northwest food and drink, and the co-organizer of the annual Portland Fermentation Festival.

A Seattle native, Dana Cree landed in Chicago in 2012 to helm the pastry department of Blackbird and Avec restaurants, where she earned two James Beard nominations for Outstanding Pastry Chef. She is now executive pastry chef of the Publican, Publican Quality Meats, Publican Tavern, and Publican Anker.

Frank DeCarlo is the chef and owner of Peasant restaurant and Bacaro wine bar in New York City.

Raúl Ramírez Degollado is the son of Titita Ramírez Degollado, owner of El Bajío restaurants in Mexico City.

Meaghan Dorman is the head bartender at Raines Law Room in New York City.

Cathy Erway is the author of The Art of Eating In and The Food of Taiwan. She writes the blog Not Eating Out in New York and hosts the podcast Eat Your Words on Heritage Radio Network. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Doug.

Caroline Fidanza is one of the founders, chefs, and owners of Saltie, an eatery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and an author of the Saltie cookbook.

Peter Freed is an egg lover currently living in Menlo Park, California. He has eaten eggs all over the world! He and his wife recently became the parents of two girl children.

Adam Gollner is the author of The Fruit Hunters and The Book of Immortality. He lives in Montreal.

Laura Goodman is a writer living in London, and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Lucky Peach. She blogs at sheisbutters.com.

Kate Greene was trained as a laser physicist in Kansas; worked as a science and technology journalist in London, Washington, DC, and San Francisco; and in 2013 was an inaugural crew member for NASA’s long-duration simulated Mars mission called HI-SEAS. Four months on Mars changed her; she now writes mostly essays and poems.

Dorie Greenspan is the author of Around My French Table, a New York Times bestseller that was named Cookbook of the Year by the IACP; Baking Chez Moi; and Baking: From My Home to Yours, a James Beard Award winner. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut, New York, and Paris.

Mary-Frances Heck is a freelance food editor and contributor to Lucky Peach. Her recipes and writing have appeared in Bon Appétit, Saveur, Redbook, Rodale’s Organic Life, Fitness, Rachael Ray Every Day, SELF, SHAPE, All You, and numerous cookbooks. Her areas of interest include biodynamic agriculture, childhood food security, and getting dinner on the table. Heck’s first cookbook will be published by Clarkson Potter in the fall of 2017.

Anissa Helou is a chef, food writer, journalist, broadcaster, consultant, and blogger focusing on the cuisines and culinary heritage of the Middle East, Mediterranean, and North Africa. Find her at anissas.com.

Tienlon Ho writes about food, the environment, and where these intersect. She is based in San Francisco. Her favorite eggs don’t have shells but come from animals with shells.

Bridget Huber is a writer and radio producer based in Oakland, California.

Mark Ibold is Lucky Peach’s Southeastern Pennsylvania correspondent and the former bassist of the band Pavement.

Arielle Johnson is a flavor scientist and the head of research at the food think tank MAD. She is also the resident scientist at restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, where she works with the R&D team to translate scientific and scholarly knowledge into new techniques and tools. Johnson received her PhD from UC Davis, where she was a National Science Foundation re-search fellow.

Anna Ling Kaye’s fiction has most recently been short-listed for the 2015 Journey Prize. Her journalism and nonfiction can be found in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, and The Tyee, and her creative work in subTerrain and Prairie Fire magazines. She reads and writes in Vancouver.

Melati Kaye is a reporter based in central Java and northern California.

Alison Kinney is the author of Hood. She has written for Lucky Peach, Harper’s, The Paris Review Daily, Lapham’s Quarterly, Hyperallergic, New Republic, Gastronomica, The Atlantic, the New York Times, and other publications.

Genevieve Ko is a food writer, recipe developer, and culinary consultant based in New York City. She is the author of Better Baking, a cookbook of delicious, wholesome desserts.

Padma Lakshmi is the Emmy-nominated host and producer of Top Chef and the author of award-winning cookbooks and a New York Times bestselling memoir. Her latest book is The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World.

Karen Leibowitz is a writer and a restaurant person whose most recent project is the Perennial, an environmentally sustainable restaurant and bar in San Francisco of which she is the cofounder with her husband, Anthony Myint. She is also a partner in Mission Chinese Food and Commonwealth and the coauthor of Atelier Crenn: Metamorphosis of Taste and Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant.

Rachel Levin is a San Francisco–based writer who has been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, San Francisco magazine, and Lucky Peach. She is a contributing editor at OZY and likes her yolks runny. Find her at byrachellevin.com.

Michael Light is a writer and an editor from Dayton, Ohio.

Deborah Madison is a chef, writer, and cooking teacher. She is the founding chef of Greens Restaurant in San Francisco. She is the author of many books, including Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy.

Pooja Makhijani writes children’s books, essays, and articles, and also develops educational media and curricula. She divides her time between Singapore and the United States.

Harold McGee writes about the science of food and cooking. He is the author of On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen and Keys to Good Cooking, and he posts at curiouscook.com.

Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Naoko Takei Moore is a donabe (Japanese clay pot) and Japanese home-cooking expert, based in Los Angeles. She operates Toiro Kitchen, a shop of artisanal donabe and Japanese kitchen tools, and also hosts cooking classes in her kitchen in Los Angeles. Visit Naoko’s website toirokitchen.com and her blog at naokomoore.com.

Dahlia Narvaez is the executive pastry chef of Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza. Dahlia developed the menus and pastry departments for all of Mozza’s Los Angeles restaurants and oversees the department in Newport Beach, San Diego, and Singapore. Dahlia has been thrice nominated for the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Pastry Chef Award.

Jacques Pépin is the author of twenty-one cookbooks, including the bestselling The Apprentice and the award-winning Jacques Pépin Celebrates and Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home (with Julia Child). He has appeared regularly on PBS programs for more than a decade, hosting over three hundred cooking shows.

Leela Punyaratabandhu is the author of Bangkok and Simple Thai Food. She writes about Thai food and culture for various publications as well as on her award-winning blog, SheSimmers. Leela divides her time between Chicago and Bangkok.

Alex Raij is the chef and owner of Txikito, El Quinto Pino, and La Vara restaurants in New York.

Lauren Ro is a writer and an editor living in New York, covering food, film, and all things related to the home.

Sonoko Sakai is a mobile cooking teacher, food writer, and soba yogi based in Los Angeles and Tehachapi. Her new cookbook, Rice Craft, is all about making onigiri.

Tannaz Sassooni is a food writer and blogger living in Los Angeles and specializing in Iranian Jewish foods.

Michael Snyder is a freelance food and culture journalist with more than four years’ experience reporting from the subcontinent. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Saveur, The Art of Eating, and Lucky Peach.

Karen Taylor is the chef and owner of El Molino Central in Sonoma, California.

Lesley Téllez is a freelance journalist and the author of Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets & Fondas. She runs Eat Mexico Culinary Tours, which operates food tours in Mexico City and Puebla.

Aaron Thier is the author of two novels, Mr. Eternity and The Ghost Apple, and is a columnist for Lucky Peach.

Naomi Tomky uses her enthusiasm as an eater, a photographer, and a writer to propel herself around the world. From trailing a street-food hawker in Singapore to navigating the ancient roads of the Mayan jungle, she explores the world for publications like Lucky Peach and Saveur, and The Atlantic’s CityLab.

Lucas Turner is a cook, musician, and mattress salesman currently residing in the Bay Area.

Second-generation Filipino American brothers Chase and Chad Valencia are behind the modern LA Filipino restaurant LASA. LASA currently resides at the culinary incubator Unit 120 in Chinatown. Their food combines Filipino cuisine with So Cal market-driven cooking.

Nathan Waller is the director of food and beverage at Yank Sing, the San Francisco dim sum restaurant founded by Alice Chan in 1958.

Ozlem Warren was born in Turkey and lived there for thirty years. She now lives in London, where she teaches Turkish cookery classes.

Jody Williams is the chef and owner of Buvette, a French-inspired restaurant she opened in New York City in 2010.