Margaret M. Johnson is a noted cookbook author and journalist. She has written for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Dublin’s Food & Wine magazine, and the Irish Echo newspaper, and is the author of Irish Puddings, Tarts, Crumbles, and Fools; The New Irish Table; and The Irish Heritage Cookbook, all from Chronicle Books. When she is not visiting her ancestral home of Ireland, she lives in New York.

Leigh Beisch is a San Francisco–based photographer. Her work has appeared in many fashion, lifestyle, and health magazines, as well as in Irish Puddings, Tarts, Crumbles, and Fools; Viva Margarita; Cooking for the Week; and Olives, Anchovies, and Capers, all from Chronicle Books.