MEIKE PETERS won a James Beard Award for her first cookbook, Eat in My Kitchen, in 2017. She is a food and travel writer who started her food blog of the same name in 2013. She lives in Berlin and Malta.

ALANA KYSAR was born in Hawai'i and currently resides in Los Angeles. In 2015, she started her award-winning blog Fix Feast Flair, where she shares recipes inspired by her Japanese-American heritage, travels, and life in Hawai'i and Southern California. Since then, her photos and recipes have been picked up everywhere from Saveur and Food & Wine to Country Living, BuzzFeed, and Yahoo Food. Her first cookbook, Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai’i, was published in 2019.