WITHOUT MY TEAM I AM NOTHING.
SUSI, BENNO, and LEO, family truly is everything.
My communications and chicharrón team led by PAMELA MURPHY, with DAVID GRUBER, KATY-JO PREVITE, and TESS KOENIG, for making everything work smoothly with aplomb, poise, and style.
My coauthor, JIM WEBSTER, whose pork wrapped in pork started a lifelong and joyous collaboration.
Designer DOUGLAS RICCARDI and his team at MEMO for making the pages smart and beautiful.
Photo shoot art director, food artist, and Zen mistress of all edible beauty KRISTA RUANE.
Shopper LIZ TARPEY, and chefs MARYANN POMERANZ, KOREN GRIEVSON, and PANCHO GATCHALIAN.
Recipe test team PATTI NUSSER for excellence in temperature control.
Prop stylist RICK GILBERT and his team GINE FREEDMAN and ALEX DORMAN for truly being the coolest prop people on this planet.
My editor KAREN MURGOLO at GRAND CENTRAL LIFE & STYLE for making this a smooth and delightful process. And kudos to her team, MATTHEW BALLAST in publicity, AMANDA PRITZKER in marketing, and MORGAN HEDDEN and KALLIE SHIMEK in editorial.
Zen master photographer QUENTIN BACON and his assistant KRISTEN WALTHER for brilliance on the page and in the kitchen studio.
For lending their geographic expertise, NASTAZIA BRICK, OPAL CURLESS (via AMY WIMMER SCHWARB), DAWN OWCZARZAK, HEATHER MEDINA, and MATTY EGGELSTON.
My business partners JOE BASTIANICH, LIDIA BASTIANICH, NANCY SILVERTON, JOHN FARBER, MARY GIULIANI, and the FARINETTI and SAPER clans, plus the teams at SUMMER GARDEN FOODS, MADEIRA HOUSEWARES, and BEL CAMPO.
The hardworking teams at my restaurants and at EATALY for exceeding all expectations and understanding the importance of our collaboration; and more importantly, their families, for tolerating the amount of hard work we all put into our days, every day.
CATHY FRANKEL for keeping it all under one roof and consistent.
TONY GARDNER for persevering in the truly intense and silly grind that contracts have become in a way that always impresses me.
SUSAN MARZANO at my foundation for working hard to raise money to help share our joy.
REYNA MASTROSIMONE for constantly keeping the digital and entertainment world near.
The Chew crew—DAFO, SYMON, CLINTON, and CARLA—for making every day at work fun and funny at the same time.
To JIM HARRISON and MICHAEL STIPE and BONO and president BILL CLINTON for the voices in my head reminding me to love life and to give unconditionally, every day and every night…
Jim Webster would like to thank: PAM WEBSTER, the team at The Washington Post, including JOE YONAN, BONNIE BENWICK, COURTNEY RUKAN, and TRACY GRANT; MELANIE STARKEY; CAROL BLYMIRE; JEREMY AND BECKY BOWERS; LAURA REILEY; RONNIE PERKINS; and MICHELLE AND GREG BAKER.