Jackie is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Roads & Kingdoms, AFAR, Eater, Life & Thyme, Thrillist, and San Diego Magazine, among others. She can usually be found hanging out in her current home of San Diego, eating in Baja California, visiting family in Barcelona, or in her hometown of New York.
Melissa Guerra is an 8th generation Texan, born and raised on a working cattle ranch in South Texas. She is a self taught culinary expert and food historian, specializing in the food ways of the American continent, especially Texas regional, Mexican, and Latin American cuisine.
Freelance eater and writer Allie Lazar has lived in Argentina since 2006. The Chicago native covers the Buenos Aires food scene on the food blog and web series Pick Up the Fork, and has been featured in the New York Times, Bon Appétit, Rolling Stone, and The Travel Channel. She is the former Restaurant and Bar editor at Time Out Buenos Aires Magazine and her writing and photography has appeared in publications like Lucky Peach, Eater, The Guardian, and Food & Wine. Her hobbies include menu reading and choripán eating.
Pati Jinich, chef and host of the nationally acclaimed PBS series Pati's Mexican Table. She is the resident chef of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., a regular guest on NBC’s Today, ABC’s The Chew, CBS’s The Talk and NPR’s The Splendid Table. She is a member of the Smithsonian Institution’s Kitchen Cabinet and has been guest chef for the President of the United States Cinco de Mayo White House Celebration.
Dr. Rob Wallace is a Bolivia-based conservationist with the Latin America & Caribbean Program at WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and leader of the ongoing Identidad Madidi expedition exploring the extraordinary biodiversity of Bolivia’s Madidi National Park.