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Amy Beth Wright
In addition to The Olive Oil Professor, Amy Beth Wright contributes to Wine Enthusiast, StyleBlueprint, Fodors, and many other outlets focused on travel, food, spirits, art, and architecture. She also co-edits Parks & Points, a website dedicated to sharing writing about parks and public lands. She teaches writing at Purchase College in New York and serves on the board of the SUNY Council on Writing. To read more of her work, visit amybethwrites.com and keep in touch on Instagram @amyb1021 and Twitter @AmyBethWright.
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Tina Caputo
Tina Caputo is a California-based writer and editor who spent 15 years editing wine business magazines before setting off on her own to enjoy the rewards and perils of independent writing. Now she covers drinks, food, travel and produce for publications including VinePair, SevenFifty Daily, Sonoma, Visit California and more. She also posts offbeat humor pieces at TinaCaputo.
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Emily Paster
A lawyer turned food writer, Emily Paster brings passion, a sharp intellect and attention to detail to her globally-inspired, Jewish cuisine. She is the author of four cookbooks, including the best-selling Epic Air Fryer Cookbook. Her latest book is Instantly Mediterranean: Vibrant Satisfying Recipes for Your Instant Pot, Electric Pressure Cooker & Air Fryer. Emily lives outside Chicago with her husband and two ravenous teenagers. Find more of Emily’s recipes on her blog West of the Loop.
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Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen
Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen is the author of 7 books, including A Little Taste of San Francisco, The Art of Vintage Cocktails, World of Doughnuts, Honey from Flower to Table, The Astrology Cookbook, and the Anti-Bride Guide: Tying the Knot Outside the Box. She has written about food, drink, travel, and the arts for numerous print and online publications, including Kinfolk, KQED, San Francisco magazine, Edible East Bay, Edible Brooklyn, Time Out NY, Chow, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne
Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne is an olive oil consultant, writer and educator. Author of Olive Oil: A Field Guide, she has written on many aspects of olive oil for both popular and scholarly publications and websites. A trained olive oil taster with over two decades of experience she teaches olive oil tasting classes at institutions here and abroad: Olive Oil Sommeliers of Japan, Culinary Institute of America, IRTA Catalonia, California State and LA County Fairs, UC Davis, and many others. She serves as a judge and advisor for various California and international olive oil competitions.
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Hannah Howard
Hannah Howard spent her formative years in New York eating, drinking, serving, bartending, cooking on a hot line, flipping giant wheels of cheese, and managing restaurants. She is the author of Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen and Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family. She writes for New York Magazine, Salon, and SELF and teaches food writing classes. She lives in Frenchtown, NJ, and loves stinky cheese.
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Luciana Squadrilli
Luciana Squadrilli is a food and travel writer based in Rome. Senior editor at Food&Wine Italia magazine, she also contributes as a freelancer to many other publications, both in Italy and abroad, mostly about pizza and extra virgin olive oil. She runs the online magazinepizzaontheroad.euand is a contributor to Culinary Backstreets from Naples.
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Lisa Radinovsky
Lisa Radinovsky, Ph.D., is an American writer based in Crete, Greece. She has focused on writing about the Greek olive oil world since 2015. The creator of the only general English-language website about Greek olive oil,greekliquidgold.com, she has reached readers in 222 countries. She has also written for publications including Olive Oil Times, Greece Is, Greek Reporter, and TML (The Mediterranean Lifestyle) Magazine. Follow Greek Liquid Gold on Facebook and Instagram.
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Adam Levy
Adam Levy is the “Olive Oil Professor” and founder of the NY International Cheese Competition. Adam is also the founder of the International Beverage Competitions Group and runs beer, wine and spirits competitions in New York, Berlin, Melbourne and Asia/Hong Kong. He is in constant search of all things delicious and shares his knowledge with the world. Born in New York with a lust for travel and a desire to visit producers around the world. He loves his dog Garret Oliver and wears Red to proudly represent Rutgers Sports.
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Amy Sherman
Amy Sherman is editor-in-chief of the Olive Oil Professor. She learned about olive oil while living with a family in Tuscany who produced their own olive oil and has visited olive oil producers in California and Morocco. She has written about food and drink for publications including Martha Stewart, Afar, Gastronomica, Epicurious and Clean Plates. She is also editor-in-chief of sister publications Alcohol Professor, Cheese Professor, Vinegar Professor, and The Chocolate Professor.
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Kristine Mae Bellen
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Kelly Magyarics
Kelly Magyarics, DWS, is a wine, spirits and lifestyle writer, and wine educator, in the Washington, D.C. area. She can be reached through her websitewww.kellymagyarics.com
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Lisa Waterman Gray
Longtime freelance food and beverage writer, Lisa Waterman Gray, has sold and educated customers about extra virgin olive oil (and balsamic vinegar) ina Kansas City-area shop, for more than a decade. She also incorporates EVOO into her daily diet. Waterman Gray’s F&B stories have appeared atThe Chocolate Professor,The Alcohol ProfessorandThe Cheese Professoras well asCleanplates.com,Allrecipes
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Shoshi Parks
Shoshi Parks is a Bay Area-based freelance writer specializing in food, travel and history. Her work has appeared at NPR, Smithsonian, Gastro Obscura, Civil Eats, Vinepair, Vice and a variety of other outlets. Find her online atwww.shoshiparks.net.
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Nancy Ash
Nancy Ash, President ofStrictly Olive Oil, is an internationally certified taste panel leader who loves teaching olive oil seminars to professionals and consumers alike. Strictly Olive Oil, based in California, provides marketing guidance to olive oil producers and importers.
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Isabel Putinja
Isabel Putinja is a travel and food writer who’s been writing about olive oil since 2014. Her passion for olive oil was sparked after her first experience of a harvest and taste of freshly-pressed oil. Her words and images have been published in major UK newspapers, a dozen in-flight magazines, and online at Lonely Planet, CNN Travel, Time Out, and Euronews. She lives in a stone house in a tiny hilltop village in Istria, Croatia. Follow her online at@isabelswindow
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Stacy Brooks
Stacy Brooks is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist specializing in food and travel. Her writing has been published in Cheese Connoisseur, Wine Enthusiast, and Hemispheres, and she blogs atTangled Up In Food.
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Anna Mindess
Anna Mindess is a writer living in Berkeley, California, who focuses on food, culture, and travel. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, AFAR, Oakland Magazine, Edible East Bay Magazine, among others. In 2018, she was awarded First Place by the Association of Food Journalists for her essay on 1951 Coffee, a refugee-run coffee shop. Anna also works as an American Sign Language interpreter and seeks out Deaf-owned restaurants wherever she travels.
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Kelsey Erin Shipman
Kelsey Erin Shipman is a food and travel writer based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She earned her MFA at Texas State University and is the founder ofThe Freehand Arts Project, a non-profit that brings creative writing classes to Texas jails and prisons. You can catch her writing about sake inParentCo, traveling with dogs inUSA Today, and small town life inThe Dallas Review.A native Texan, she loves big dogs and breakfast tacos.
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Jacqueline Gualtieri
Jacqueline is a writer and editor living on the Central Coast of California. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Insider, The Slowdown, and HuffPost. Meanwhile, her fiction work has been included in several anthologies, including A Murder of Storytellers and Please See Me. She also works with small businesses to help improve their content marketing strategies and boost their SEO-driven content. When she’s not writing, editing, or strategizing, Jacqueline can usually be found crocheting toys for her nieces and nephews, taking road trips along the California Coast, or volunteering with the local senior dog rescue.
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Rosie Cohan
Rosie Cohan is an award-winning travel writer, who has traveled to over 65 countries, including 17 trips to Turkiye, her “home away from home.” She has worked and lived in Istanbul and led cooking and cuisine tours to Turkiye. Her stories have been published online at GEOEX.com, travelerstales.com, besttravelwriting.com, AboutPlace.org, and in the anthologies, Stories That Need To Be Told by Tulip Tree Press, and BATW’s Travel Stories of Wonder and Change.
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Elisa Shoenberger
Elisa Shoenberger is a freelance writer and journalist in Chicago. She has written about food and drink for Wine Enthusiast, Huffington Post, Rewire, Midwesterner, Farm Flavor, and others. She also has written for the Boston Globe, US News and World Report, WIRED Magazine, and others. She has a B.A. in Latin American History from the University of Chicago, M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.B.A. in Marketing and Operations Management from Loyola University Chicago. She makes cheese in her spare time. Twitter: @vogontroubadour and at Mischief and Writing.
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Mary Luz Mejia
Mary Luz Mejia is the first and so far only IICCT Level 3 chocolate taster in Canada. She completed her final level in Italy, the first two in Canada and now leads sensory tutored tastings and classes focusing on Canadian bean-to-bar chocolate across Canada and globally via virtual events. Colombian-born, Canadian-raised Mary Luz Mejia is a twice NATJA nominated freelance food/travel journalist, Gemini-nominated former food TV producer, and chocolate judge. Her work has been published in Saveur Magazine, The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, and Toronto Life to name a few. When not writing about chocolate or judging it, she loves savouring good dark milk or dark chocolate single estate varietals, ideally from Peru with fruit and floral notes.
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Rebecca Frey
Rebecca Frey enjoyed a long career as a costume designer and wardrobe stylist before changing course to pursue her passion for food. She is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu London, where she earned the Diplôme de Pâtisserie (French Pastry Techniques Diploma). She also holds an MSc in Culinary Innovation from Birkbeck, University of London, and a Professional Chocolatier's Certificate from Ecole Chocolat. She has written for websites including Serious Eats and Wine Enthusiast, and also shares recipes via her blog, Baste Cut Fold, and on Instagram: @bastecutfold. A Pennsylvania native and longtime New Yorker, Rebecca currently resides in London.
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Natasha Bazika
Natasha Bazika's writing has taken her around the world. She's covered everything from wine to resorts and dining. She writes for CNN Travel, Travel + Leisure, Vogue Living, and Thrillist Australia. Follow her adventures on@natashagracebazika.
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Hollie Stephens
Hollie Stephens is an award-winning freelance writer originally from London and currently based in New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in VinePair, Pellicle, Hop Culture, and other publications. View more bylines at holliestephens.com, and follow her on Twitter @GlobeHops
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Megan Lloyd
Megan Lloyd is a freelance writer and journalist living in Sevilla, Spain. She specializes in food, drink, travel, and all things Spanish. Her work has appeared in places like TASTE, Eater, and Serious Eats, to name a few. You can follow her edible Spanish adventures on Instagram@meganfranceslloydor check out her portfolio:www.meganfranceslloyd.com.
