Mario Castrellón is the chef of the restaurant of Maito in Panama City.
Peruvian chef Diego Muñoz is the chef of the restaurant Popular in New York City, and the former chef of Astrid y Gastón in Lima, Peru.
Martin Rosberg is a former hotelier turned natural cheesemaker and baker from Argentina that now lives in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.
Sanjay Thakur is a chef from Himachal Pradesh, the mountainous, far northern part of India.
Farmer Lee Jones runs The Chef’s Garden, his family farm in Huron, Ohio. He is the author of The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables – with Recipes.
Laura Lazzaroni is a writer, baker, and consultant based in Milan, Italy. She is the author of the recently released cookbook The New Cucina Italiana: What to Eat, What to Cook, and Who to Know in Italian Cuisine today, from Rizzoli Books.
Sarela Herrada is the co-founder of the food company SIMPLi. Born in
Peru, but based in Washington DC, Herrada is helping re-shape the trade of products like quinoa, olive oil, and açaí in a way that’s better for farmers, the environment, and consumers.
Andrés Morataya is a chef that lives in the on the far coast of the Azuero Peninsula in Panama, in a place called Playa Venao, where he once ran the restaurant Panga.
Stephanie Bonnin is a chef and documentary filmmaker from Barranquilla, Colombia. Her project La Tropi-Kitchen, a pop-up restaurant in New York, specializes in regional Colombian cooking.
Gunnar Gíslason is the chef and owner of Dill in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the author of North: The New Nordic Cuisine of Iceland. For more than a decade, Gíslason has been helping resurrect Iceland’s ancestral foodways.
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