Mike Holleman

Michael Holleman

Chef Consultant/Owner, MBH Culinary LLC
Bemidji, MN
Chef Michael Holleman began his culinary career in independent restaurants, where he developed a keen interest in specialty ingredients. For more than two decades, he served as the culinary director for InHarvest, where he built a team that became the primary image and brand builder for all...
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Robin Asbell

Chef and Cookbook Author
Minneapolis, MN
Robin Asbell is a chef, educator and author who is dedicated to whole foods and real flavor. Asbell worked her way up to chef in the whole grain baking and natural foods restaurant world, before starting her business as a food writer and private chef in 1995. Since then, she has cooked in the homes...
Kathryn Conrad

Kathryn Conrad

Chef and Senior Food Stylist, Reader’s Digest Association
Milwaukee, WI
Kathryn Conrad is 20 year veteran Food Stylist, Recipe Developer and Writer. Her career has included work with national magazines such as Cooking Light and Health, international companies including Campbell’s Soup, Pinnacle, Pampered Chef and MillerCoors, advertising campaigns, articles and copy...
Jesse Cool

Jesse Ziff Cool

Owner and Founder, Cooleatz
Palo Alto, CA / Independent Board Member
Dedicated to sustainable agriculture and cuisine for over 35 years, Jesse is an advocate for local, sustainable, organic food production and for farmers, whom she warmly refers to as her heroes and considers to be the first real environmental pioneers. Jesse’s work in the food business supports her...
Judith Finlayson

Judith Finlayson

Cookbook Author
Toronto, ON, Canada
A former journalist and author, Judith Finlayson decided barely more than a decade ago to turn transform her life-long love of cooking into a second career. Today, her cookbooks have sold almost three-quarters of a million copies. Her passion for eating delicious food that is also nutritious...
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Ellie Krieger, RD

New York Times Bestelling Author and TV host
New York, NY
Well known from her hit Food Network show “Healthy Appetite,” and host and executive producer of the cooking series “Ellie’s Real Good Food” on Public Television, Ellie Krieger is a New York Times bestselling, IACP and two-time James Beard Foundation award winning author of seven cookbooks. She is...
Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch

Executive Chef
Bloomington, MN
A native Texan, Chef Paul Lynch received his degree from New England Culinary Institute. Chef Paul has enjoyed an around-the-world career with Four Seasons Hotels, and then Westin Hotels, moving to a position as Executive Chef at the landmark Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis in 1999, and then Radisson...
Cary Neff

Cary Neff

Vice President of Culinary, Morrison Management Services
Chef Cary Neff is recognized as a pioneer in putting whole grains in the center of the plate, in creative and delicious ways. Best known for inventing “Conscious Cuisine” (and for his book of the same name), he has long been instrumental in convincing diners that healthy food can be enticing. As a...
Steve Petusevsky

Steven Petusevsky

Recipe & Menu Development Expert
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Heralded as a pioneer of flavor-first, plant-forward cooking, chef Steven Petusevsky is driven by the desire to make healthier cuisine more craveable, creative, accessible, and understood. Dedicated to transforming the way people shop and eat, his early culinary studies took him across the globe in...
Peter Reinhart

Peter Reinhart

Master Baker and Author
Charlotte, NC
Chef Peter Reinhart holds the position of Chef on Assignment at J&W’s Charlotte campus. He joined J&W in 1999 as an instructor and moved to our Charlotte campus in 2003. For the 5 years prior to teaching at J&W, Reinhart was a full-time instructor at the California Culinary Academy in...
Lorna Sass

Lorna Sass

Cookbook Author
New York, NY
Lorna Sass is a widely published food writer and an award-winning cookbook author. Her career in food began as a culinary historian: while studying for her PhD in medieval literature at Columbia University, Lorna wrote four historical cookbooks that were published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Joel Schaefer

Joel Schaefer

Co-Founder, Your Allergy Chefs / Product Development Manager, Princess Cruises
Valencia, CA
Joel Schaefer has been in the food service industry for over 25 years. He is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy and Valencia Community College with an AS in Culinary Management, a Certified Chef de Cuisine, and a Certified Hospitality Trainer. Joel’s experience includes being a culinary...
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Ana Sortun

Executive Chef/Co-Owner, Oleana and Sofra Bakery & Cafe, Co-Owner, Sarma
Cambridge, MA
Ana Sortun is a native of Seattle, Washington and graduated from La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine de Paris in 1989. She opened her first restaurant, Oleana, in 2001 and was named Best Chef in the Northeast by the James Beard Foundation in 2005. That same year she gave birth to her daughter Siena and...
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Maria Speck

Cookbook Author
Cambridge, MA
Veteran food writer and journalist Maria Speck is the author of Simply Ancient Grains and Ancient Grains for Modern Meals (both by Ten Speed Press). Her work has received multiple awards, including a Julia Child and an M.F.K. Fisher cookbook award. Raised in Germany and Greece, Maria has a lifelong...