Bobby Flay is one of the country’s most celebrated chefs, restaurateurs, media personalities, and authors. He is a James Beard Award winner, the author of seventeen cookbooks, and has starred in many Food Network programs, which earned him five Daytime Emmy Awards. In 2015, he became the first chef to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bobby divides his time between New York and Los Angeles, where he lives with his two Maine Coon cats, Nacho and Stella. 

Sophie Flay is a community journalist for ABC7 news in Los Angeles. Flay has previously appeared alongside her father on his popular Food Network shows, including Beat Bobby Flay, Brunch at Bobby’s, and The Flay List.

Emily Timberlake is a writer based out of Oakland, California. She is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Foodheim with Eric Wareheim and has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Taste, Punch, and more. As a former senior editor at Ten Speed Press, she edited more than sixty books on food and wine, including twelve James Beard and IACP Cookbook Award winners.