Marie-Pierre Moine has more than 20 years' experience in the food and wine media. A past editor of Taste magazine (UK), she has had a monthly food column for House & Garden since 1995. She is a food and travel writer, cooking demonstrator and consultant, a member of the UK Guild of Food Writers, and on the committee of the Academy of Chocolate.Elisabeth Luard is a writer, journalist, and broadcaster with a culinary specialization. She is the current trustee director of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She is known for her cookbooks The Latin American Kitchen, The Food of Spain and Portugal, A Cook's Year in a Welsh Kitchen, and many more. She also contributes a column to The Oldie and Zester Daily. Ghillie Basan, a food writer, author, and broadcaster, grew up in East Africa, and has a degree in social anthropology and a Cordon Bleu diploma, which she combines in her work on the culinary cultures of Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa. She has written more than 30 cookbooks, numerous food and travel articles, and is a spice expert. Basan lives in the Scottish Highlands where she runs internationally acclaimed cooking classes.
