I was born and raised in Chania, to a Cretan fisherman dad and a Scottish mum. I spent most of my childhood in our family seafood restaurant by the sea. We ate the freshest fish everyday, caught by my dad; one man in one boat every single night.

I left Chania to study in England and after studying and travelling I came back to doing what I love most, cooking. Cooking at Moro and now Morito has been one of the best experiences of my life and I consider myself lucky to have a job that I love more and more every single day.

James Beard Rising Star Chef finalist and siblings behind Boston Mei Mei’s Street Kitchen, the acclaimed food truck enterprise and restaurant, focused on New England-influenced Chinese food and thoughtful sourcing.

Ben Lippett is a chef, food writer and recipe developer, and the powerhouse behind the hugely popular @dinnerbyben social media accounts (where he has accrued over 400,000 followers) and the How I Cook Substack, which currently ranks 20th on the global food and drink leaderboard. He’s a firm believer that one of the most important things you can do whilst cooking is ask why? Why am I adding salt now and not later? Why am I patting this chicken breast dry before I cook it? Why has my chocolate mousse split? How do certain flavours develop? Understanding the whys and hows behind your cooking is akin to holding the keys to the culinary kingdom and will ultimately make life in the kitchen a fulfilling and enjoyable one.

Top Chef Masters finalist and award-winning chef, Lo worked at Bouley and Chanterelle before opening the Michelin-starred restaurant annisa in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 2000, which she ran until it closed in 2017. Food & Wine named her one of ten Best New Chefs in America, and the Village Voice proclaimed her Best New Restaurant Chef; in 2015, she became the first female guest chef to cook at the White House.

Eva Longoria is an American actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman, best known for her role on the popular television series Desperate Housewives. Besides acting Longoria has ventured into business and has released various books, including Eva’s Kitchen, taking readers on her culinary journey—from the food she was brought up on to the recipes inspired by her travels abroad to the dishes she serves during casual nights at home.

A bi-weekly magazine, New York covers life, culture, politics, and style with a particular emphasis on New York City. In the past decade, New York has won 34 National Magazine Awards, including six General Excellence awards.

Illyanna Maisonet is the author of Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook (Ten Speed). She was the United States’ first Puerto Rican food columnist for a major newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, and is an IACP award winner for narrative food writing. She has sold-out pop-up dinners across the San Francisco Bay Area and has collaborated with Jose Andres for Steven Speilberg’s West Side Story wrap party.  Illyanna has contributed recipes to Rancho Gordo, authored a crowdfunded cookbooklet, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Food52, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, and more.

Shane McBride is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and one of New York's most accomplished chefs. He began his career with esteemed chef Charlie Palmer at Aureole, then went on to work with Chef Christian Delouvier at the world-renowned Lepinasse. Shane was Executive Chef at Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak for many years, followed by a long tenure as Executive Chef at famed Soho brasserie Balthazar. Although his expertise has been in haute cuisine, his passion is in American barbecue. He leads the multiple award-winning Ribdiculous Bar-B-Krewe competition team. Shane is currently the Executive Chef and a Co-Owner of Pig Beach.

Lora McLaughlin Peterson is creator of LORAfied, with over 770,000 followers on Instagram and over 307,000 followers on TikTok where she offers hacks for the home and easy, delicious recipes for quick weekday meals.  Lora has been featured on sites for Newsweek,  Good Morning America, The U.S. Sun, and The Sun U.K., Today,   the Daily Mail, the Daily Meal, Tom’s Guide, The New York Post, and kitchn. She also demonstrated some of her hacks on the Today Show with Hoda and Jenna.

With over 5 million fans spread across her social media platforms, New York Times best-selling author Joanne Molinaro, a.k.a The Korean Vegan, has appeared on The Food Network, CBS Saturday Morning, ABC's Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Today Show, PBS, and The Rich Roll Podcast. She's been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, and CNN; and her debut cookbook was selected as one of “The Best Cookbooks of 2021” by The New York Times and The New Yorker among others.

Molinaro is a Korean American woman, born in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents were both born in what is now known as North Korea. Molinaro started her blog, The Korean Vegan, in 2016, after adopting a plant-based diet. In July 2020, she started her TikTok (@thekoreanvegan), mostly as a coping mechanism for the isolation caused by the global pandemic. She began posting content related to politics and life as a lawyer during quarantine. However, after a single post of her making Korean braised potatoes for dinner (while her husband taught a piano lesson in the background) went viral, Molinaro shifted her attention to producing 60 second recipe videos, while telling stories about her family—immigrants from what is now known as North Korea.

Born and currently living in Nashville, TN, Arnold Myint spent the majority of his childhood climbing 100 lb rice bags at his parents’ market and traveling to their homeland of South East Asia for summer break. Having toured as a competitive and professional ice skater, attended the Institute of Culinary Education, worked in Jean Georges Vongerichten’s culinary empire, and competed on “Top Chef” and “Food Network Star,” Arnold is now the chef/owner/partner of three restaurants, including his parents’ International Market. His work continues to be recognized on a national level, including GQ, Epicurious, USA Today, and Eater.-com

Shark Tank alum, entrepreneur, and proprietor of Daisy Cakes, where each homemade cake is hand-iced before being shipped from her kitchen to yours.

Amy Newsome is a Kew-trained horticulturist, freelance beekeeper and passionate cook based in West London. Following a stint in the world of high fashion photography and digital marketing, Amy moved to the Cotswolds to retrain as a gardener and beekeeper, working with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, and organic grower Anna Greenland at Soho Farmhouse. From there she set her sights on the ultimate botanical paradise, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, completing the Kew Diploma in Horticulture in September 2021. More recently, Amy has worked with prison reform charity Food Behind Bars, helping to bring bees and kitchen gardening into prisons. She has written for multiple publications, including Bloom magazine, on subjects such as single-origin honey and cooking over fire.

Maria Nicolau is a professional and deeply vocational cook. For more than twenty years she has worked in many restaurants in Catalonia, Spain and France. She currently lives in Vilanova de Sau, Osona, where she runs the restaurant El Ferrer de Tall, devoted to Catalan cuisine. Maria Nicolau speaks on several radio programs, and appears weekly on TV. Above all, Maria is an enthusiast: she is as passionate about cooking as she is about life itself.

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“We are so lazy when cooking dinner that, with enough sugar, we’d be open to eat dog’s poo,  find it tasty, and convince everyone else that it is, indeed, good. Cook! or die.”

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Cooking is not (just) following a recipe, a list of ingredients or meticulously planning the shopping list. Cooking is what happens at the margins of a recipe: it’s about improvising, taking risks, expressing who you are, making  choices. Cooking is freedom.

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Enthusiastic and non-conformist, Maria Nicolau opens the door to a path of a rich, sustainable, passionate and, above all, coherent cuisine. Cooking explained through history and science, nature and technology, collective memory and the intimate experience. Why is the pot the first invention of civilization? Why do cakes rise in the oven? Why do we only buy salmon and hake, when the Mediterranean is full of other fish varieties? Maria Nicolau offers us much more than recipes: she dares us to drop the “I-have-no-time” syndrome and urges us to take an honest look at ourselves in the mirror and stare at the nonsense of a society that eats but does not cook.

With 20,000 copies sold in Catalan, becoming most probably the most sold book this 2022, COOK! OR DIE is not your regular cookbook but a braid of essay, memoir, and a culinary exploration. It is also a manifesto to ditch the delivery, the take away way of life  to rediscover our kitchens and the powerful joy of cooking.

Norah O’Donnell is co-host of “CBS This Morning” and is also a contributor to “60 Minutes”. Prior to that, she served as CBS News’ Chief White House Correspondent. With Geoff Tracy, Norah O’Donnell is the author of NYT bestseller, Baby Love.

Kwame Onwuachi was named the 2019 James Beard Rising Star Chef, is executive chef of Washington D.C.’s Kith & Kin and Union Market’s Philly Wing Fry, and is author of the memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef.

Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie is an innovative educator, speaker, author and a Babson Professor of History and Foodways. Dr. Opie has appeared on NPR, BBC Radio, The History Channel, PBS television, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Oprah Magazine.

James Park is a food content creator, food personality, and social media strategist based in Brooklyn. He is professionally trained at the International Culinary Center, and has worked with various food media brands including Eater, Food52 BuzzFeed, and ChowHound. He loves to share his passion for Korean cuisine and culture, fried chicken, chile crisp, and more.

Erik Piepenburg has been writing for the New York Times since 2004, covering LGBTQ issues, theater, film, television, food and travel. He's a regular contributor and writes a monthly column about one of his guilty pleasures, horror movies. Originally from Cleveland, Erik now lives in Manhattan with his partner.

In 2018, Claudia Polo started the Project Soul In The Kitchen, an initiative through which she shares recipes and cooking tips through social media, mostly Instagram, where she has more than 75K followers. She has a Gastronomy and Culinary Science from the Basque Culinary Center. She is the co-author of “Mañanitas: Desayunos y Rituales” and is currently writing her first cookbook.

Owner of the Filipino restaurants Jeepney and Maharlika, Ponseca and executive chef Miguel Trinidad won Time Out Magazine New York City’s Best Restaurant and Battle of the Burger in 2014.

Fashion designer, Creative director of Brooks Brothers, and self taught chef, Zac Posen has received many awards including the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Swarovski’s Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear. He is also a judge on the hit television show, Project Runway.

With Josh, Williams, Eric Prum is the founder of W&P Design, an innovative food and beverage company based in Brooklyn, NY, composed of a growing group of individuals passionate about the intersection of food and design.

Owner of Regalis Foods, a Brooklyn-based purveyor of exotic foods with an extensive client list of Michelin star restaurants, Purkayastha founded his first truffle company in his home state of Arkansas when he was 15 years old.

Ashanté Reese is a writer, anthropologist, and assistant professor of African and African Diaspora at The University of Texas at Austin. Her first book, Black Food Geographies (2020) won the Best Monograph Prize from the Association for the Study of Food and Society & the Margaret Mead Award jointly awarded by the Association of American Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Her work work has been supported by the National Science Foundations, The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), UNCF-Mellon, The American Council for Learned Society, among others.

Andrea Reusing is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, and leader in the sustainable agriculture movement. She is the 2011 winner of the James Beard award for Best Chef: Southeast and serves on the boards of the Center of Environmental Farming Systems and Chefs Collaborative. She has written for Saveur, Domino, Fine Cooking, Gourmet.com and the News & Observer. Reusing's book, Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes, was named one of 2011’s most notable cookbooks by the New York Times.

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Food writer Sara Roahen is the author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Norton).

Charlise Rookwood is a British-born culinary artist with Jamaican and Mauritian heritage. She worked in the music industry for over 25 years before becoming a full-time vegan chef, caterer and food vlogger. Charlise has cooked and created event menus for celebrities such as Jim Jones, Dave Chapelle, Chaka Khan, Donnell Rawlings, and Remy Ma; and has catered for organizations such as LinkedIn, Soho House UK, and Apple. She has appeared twice on the Today Show and is the host of The Black Vegan Cooking Show produced by iOne Digital. Follow Rookwood at @vegansouliscious.

Emily Roz is a food content creator and recipe developer with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram.

Emily is passionate about creating accessible recipes inspired by dishes from all around the world (hence her @myriad recipes handle), and her particular love for dumplings has earned her the unofficial title of ‘dumping queen’.

Emily is currently working on her first cookbook.

Matthew Ryle is chef and co-owner of Maison Francois in London’s St James, and has a social media following in the millions, including Nigella Lawson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex James, not to mention numerous acclaimed chefs. Known for his viral Instagram series on French classics, Matthew has also appeared on MasterChef: The Professionals (runner up) and Sunday Brunch.

SELF was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2008. The Drop 10 Diet was a New York Times Bestseller.

Su Scott is a Korean-born food writer living in London. In October 2019 she won the Best Reader’s Recipe category at the prestigious Observer Food Monthly Awards with her recipe for kimchi jjigae. Since winning the award, she’s pursued a freelance career as a food writer and recipe developer, in between being a mother. In January 2021, she was featured in Waitrose Food magazine as a rising star of the food world and contributed her family recipes under the title ‘Home Comfort’. Her domestic kitchen-friendly recipes based on food from her childhood have been well received by editors, food teams and readers for their purposefully simple approach and impactful flavour, and her recipes can also be found in many other food publications including Sainsbury’s magazine, Olive magazine and Waitrose Weekend newspaper.

Co-Creative Director of Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, Shuldiner is the founder of The Institute of Domestic Technology cooking school That teaches the domestic arts, such as pickling, cheese making, and bread making. In addition, Shuldiner is also a visual artist whose work has been exhibited at the Long Beach Museum of Art and featured in New York magazine, Interview, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications.

Originally a graduate of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen apprentice scheme, Tim Siadatan went on to set up the much-lauded Trullo restaurant in 2010 with his business partner Jordan Frieda. The two then opened the explosively successful Padella in London’s Borough Market in 2016, with a second branch opening in Shoreditch in 2020. Padella continues to be an enormously successful restaurant and has set and maintains the standard for quality pasta within London and far beyond, with many a visitor to London making the pilgrimage to Borough Market to stand in their legendary queue.

Rachel Signer is the founder and publisher of Pipette magazine, an independent natural-wine print magazine, and internationally known journalist and expert on natural wine. She lives in Australia where she and her husband, Anton Von Klopper, make a limited production of Lucy Margaux and Persephone wines.

Julie Smolyansky is CEO and Director of Lifeway Foods Inc. Named the nation’s youngest female CEO of a publicly held firm in 2002, she was recently named to Fortune’s “40 under 40” and Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business 1000.”

Colin Spoelman is a former rooftop moonshiner from Kentucky who founded Kings County Distillery with David Haskell in 2010. He is co-author of The Guide to Urban Moonshining and Dead Distillers. Spoelman also works in architecture.

Alex Stacey grew up just outside Paris and spent a huge part of her childhood watching, learning and cooking in her mother and grandmother’s kitchens. When not in the kitchen, her family’s favourite pastime was travelling around France in their trusty Renault Espace to sample the food specialities of the different regions. From Corsica to Brittany, she learned about beautiful locally grown ingredients, distinctive flavours and seasonality. Although her childhood dream had been to open a restaurant, a passion for History took her to the UK for her studies and then to London, where she worked in Arts PR. Having two children of her own spurred her on to revisit and rediscover all the simple comforting recipes she loved so much as a child. In recent years she has documented these dishes on her Instagram account @frenchfamilyfood and is passionate about the delicious, colourful and feelgood food she prepares daily for her family.

Elizabeth Stein is the founder and CEO of the natural foods company Purely Elizabeth and author of the cookbook Eating Purely (Skyhorse).

A writer on environmental science, agriculture, and botany, Stone has written for National Geographic and is a former White House correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. His work has also appeared in Time, the Washington Post, Vice, and Literary Hub, and he teaches environmental policy at Johns Hopkins University.

Jesse Szewczyk is a writer, recipe developer, and food stylist based in New York. His work has been featured in Food52, The Washington Post, The Kitchn, BuzzFeed, Tasty, Bake From Scratch, Apartment Therapy, and several other publications. He has spoken at several events, including ones hosted by The James Beard Foundation and Random House Books, and was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 of Food and Drink in 2021. He is the author of Tasty Pride, a collection of 75 recipes and stories from the queer food community (Clarkson Potter/Tasty, 2020) that raised $50,000 for GLAAD. He is currently working on his first solo cookbook, set to publish in 2021.

Geoff Tracy, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, is the owner of four major restaurants in the D.C. area. In 2009, Geoff was awarded the Albert Uster “Chef of the Year Award”. In 2010, he was named one of the top 40 business people under the age of 40 by Washington Business Journal. In 2011, Chef Geoff’s Tysons won the RAMMY award for “Hottest Restaurant Bar Scene.” With Norah O’Donnell, Geoff is the author of NYT bestseller, Baby Love.

Executive chef of the Filipino restaurants Jeepney and Maharlika, Trinidad and restaurant owner Nicole Ponseca won Time Out Magazine New York City’s Best Restaurant and Battle of the Burger in 2014.

Joe Trivelli is co-head chef at London’s iconic River Café, where he has worked since 2001. Southern Italian on his father's side but born and raised in Kent, Joe’s first book, The Modern Italian Cook, was published by Seven Dials. It won the Fortnum & Mason Debut Cookery Book award and was named the Observer Food Monthly’s best book of 2018.

Sumayya Usmani is a food writer and educator who grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Sumayya moved to London in 2006, where she lived for ten years before she made Glasgow home. She followed her father’s second career as a lawyer and practised the profession in both Pakistan and London. She eventually quit her twelve year legal career to follow her passion for sharing and writing about the flavours of her homeland, with a view to highlighting Pakistani cuisine as a distinct one. Sumayya's writing reminisces about food and memories of growing up in Pakistan, and she advocates cooking by "andaza" (sensory and estimation cooking), which is how she learnt to cook from her mother and grandmothers, from a very young age. Sumayya has worked with some of the biggest names in the food world, including Madhur Jaffrey, Sophie Grigson, Claudia Roden, Rachel Allen and Vivek Singh. She writes for and appears in many publications such as Delicious, Olive, BBC Good Food (naming her the go-to expert in Pakistani food), Saveur, Guardian, Sunday Herald, New York Times, Telegraph and Food 52. Sumayya has been on the Good Food Channel (with Madhur Jaffrey), BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Saturday Live, as well as BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network and BBC Worldwide. She is also a panelist on BBC Radio 4's Kitchen Cabinet panel with Jay Rayner.

Brigid Ransome Washington is from Trinidad & Tobago but has been in the U.S. since she was 17.  She is a classically trained chef, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where she was editor-in-chief of its  publication,  La Papillote. She is author of Coconuts. Ginger. Shrimp. Rum as well as Caribbean Flavors For Every Season, and has contributed to cookbooks by Joe Yonan Priya Krishna, and Von Diaz. Her food writing has appeared in Bon  Appetit, Epicurious, Food & Wine, Parents, Real Simple, Southern Living, The New York Times, The  Washington Post, and  many other publications.

A former West Coast editor of W, West writes about culture, food, lifestyle, and design for numerous publications. The Co-Creative Director of Grand Central Market in Los Angeles and a certified Master Food Preserver, he produces a retail collection of jams and marmalades.

Former Executive Food Editor of Refinery29, Weidemann created the blog Impatient Foodie in July 2015. Previously, she had a cooking show on Vogue.com called "Elettra’s Goodness," prior to which, she worked as a model for 10 years and was the face of Lancome cosmetics. She has a Masters Degree in Biomedicine from the London School of Economics.

With Eric Prum, Josh Williams is a founder of W&P Design, an innovative food and beverage company based in Brooklyn, NY, composed of a growing group of individuals passionate about the intersection of food and design.

Joe Woodhouse grew up on farms in Cambridge and Scarborough. In his twenties he trained as a chef and worked in restaurants before embarking on a career as a food stylist and food and travel photographer. Joe has been a vegetarian since he was ten years old and has since developed a deep understanding of flavoursome vegetarian cooking that draws its inspiration from seasonality and good ingredients. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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A longtime food and travel journalist, Wulfhart writes the “Carry-On” column for the New York Times. Her work has also been published in Travel + Leisure, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, and elsewhere.