Darren McGrady is a chef, author, culinary consultant, event planner, and public speaker. He was a personal chef to Queen Elizabeth II, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Princes William and Harry for fifteen years and has cooked for Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.
Myron Mixon is an American celebrity chef. He is a competitor on the competitive barbecue circuit. Myron is a five-time barbecue World Champion and appeared as a judge on Destination America reality television show BBQ Pitmasters. He also appeared as a judge on the bbq show Smoked as well as the show BBQ Pit Wars.
Massimo Bottura is an Italian restaurateur and Chef. He serves as the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Modena, Italy. It has been listed in the top 5 at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards since 2010 and received top ratings from L’Espresso, Gambero Rosso and the Touring Club guides.
Nigel Slater is a well-known English food writer, journalist, and broadcaster. He has been working as the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Nigel has written a column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade. Before, he spent five years as a food writer for Marie Claire for five years.
Todd English is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality living in Boston, Massachusetts. He hosted the TV cooking show, Food Trip on PBS. In 2005, Todd was a judge on the PBS show Cooking Under Fire.
Jessica B. Harris is an American culinary historian, cookbook author, college professor, and journalist. Currently, she hosts a monthly program called My Welcome Table, on Heritage Radio Network. Also, Jessica is professor emerita at Queens College, City University of New York. Jessica taught there for 50 years.
Kenji Lopez Alt is an American chef and food writer. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, became a critical and commercial success, charting on the New York Times Bestseller. It also won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for the best General Cooking cookbook.
Dorie Greenspan is an American cook and author of cookbooks. She was called by The New York Times a “culinary guru” in 2004. With the publication of Baking with Dorie, New York Times bestselling author Dorie marks her thirtieth anniversary as a cookbook author.
Deb Perelman is an American self-taught home cook, cookbook author, and photographer. She is the creator of smittenkitchen.com. Deb is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, which won the IACP Julia Child Award.
Rick Stein is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer, and television presenter. Along with business partner Jill Stein, he has run the Stein hotel and restaurant business in the UK.