Based out of Costa Rica, Canada native Liz Furlong is the co-owner of both brunch restaurant Maza Bistro and cocktail bar Bebedero. You can still catch her behind the bar on occasion where she loves re-purposing local herbal remedies and traditional ingredients into her drinks.
Sabina Bandera is the chef and owner of Ensenada's famous food cart and restaurant La Guerrerense. Her seafood tostadas have represented Mexico in the World Street Food Congress and she has been featured in programming and publications around the globe, including México: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, National Geographic Channel, Travel+Leisure, San Diego Reader, Travesías, Los Ángeles Times, The New York Times, and Reforma.
Originally from Santiago, Chile, Araceli Paz is a photographer and the Director of Communications for Grupo Enrique Olvera.
Based in Barcelona, Claudia is a project manager that changed her tech bubble for her love for food and travel, joining the World's 50 Best Restaurants team. Now she is a freelance working for different culinary events and projects around the world, while learning day by day the language of food from the most talented kitchens, even if not cooking in them.
Pablo Salas, chef of Amaranta, studied at the Ambrosía Culinary Center, but above all learned to cook from the hardworking women cooks in the markets and stands in Mexico.