ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Mario Batali counts among his accomplishments twenty-six restaurants around the globe, nine cookbooks, numerous television shows, and two Eataly marketplaces in New York and Chicago. Batali’s cookbooks include the James Beard Award–winning Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes and Molto Batali: Simple Family Meals from My Home to Yours. Batali appears daily on ABC’s The Chew, a daytime talk show that celebrates and explores life through food. In 2008, he founded the Mario Batali Foundation with the mission of feeding, protecting, educating, and empowering children.

Jim Webster is a newspaperman by trade and a culinary adventurer by choice. When not at his job at the Washington Post, he can be found in the kitchen, at the farmers’ market, or out learning from the chefs and farmers who feed us all so he can produce more delicious content.