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Yotam Assaf Ottolenghi is an Israeli-born British chef, restaurateur, and food writer.

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Edna Regina Lewis was a renowned American chef, teacher, and author who helped refine the American view of Southern cooking.

Ixta Belfrage is a cook and food writer whose style draws on her family's Brazilian, Italian, and Mexican heritage. She taught herself to cook, ran a catering company, and spent five years at Yotam Ottolenghi's Test Kitchen. She co-authored *Ottolenghi Flavour* with Ottolenghi and has since released solo cookbooks *Mezcla* (2022) and *FUSÃO*.

Tara Wigley spent a decade working in publishing — at the Abner Stein Literary Agency in London and then Simon & Schuster — before attending cookery school in Ireland. She has developed, tested, and written recipes for Yotam Ottolenghi's columns in the Guardian and the New York Times, and contributed to several of his cookbooks, including Plenty More, NOPI, SWEET, Ottolenghi Simple (2018), Falastin (2020), and Ottolenghi Flavor (2020).