Michele Anna Jordan has written nearly twenty books, including the highly acclaimed Vinaigrettes and Other Dressings and the Good Cook's Books series. She has received numerous awards, among them a James Beard Award for Magazine Feature Writing and a Sonoma County Best Chef Award. Today she writes four weekly columns for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and also writes for Sonoma magazine. She resides in Sebastopol, California.

Liza Gershman is an award-winning lifestyle, food, and travel photographer whose passions have taken her to forty-five states and thirty-three countries. She resides in San Francisco, California.