Gloria Bakst is a nutritional lifestyle consultant and the founder of Balanced Nutritional Lifestyles. Gloria spent seven years as the food expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition and wrote the popular Cooking with Gloria column on the Zone Perfect website. Her recipes have been published in Weight Watcher cookbooks, The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook and The Healing the Heart Cookbook.

Mary Goodbody is a nationally known food writer and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Taste: Pure and Simple. She recently worked with bestselling author Debra Ponzek on The Family Kitchen Mary also has collaborated on cookbooks with Williams-Sonoma and Art Smith, Oprah Winfrey's chef.