Having been a professional cook and baker most of my life, David Lebovitz launched a website in 1999 to coincide with the release of his first book, Room for Dessert. The site was intended as a place to share recipes and stories and in 2004, to coincide with my move to Paris. I was named one of the Top Five Pastry Chefs in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Chronicle and have been featured in, Bon Appétit, Chocolatier, Cooking Light, Food+Wine, Cook’s Illustrated, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times, People, Saveur, Sunset, and USA Today.

A way of inspiring home chefs from the Apartment Therapy creators.

Food52 Co-Founder Amanda Hesser authored The Essential New York Times Cookbook and 3 other books. Co-Founder Merrill Stubbs graduated from Le Cordon Bleu and worked at Cook's Illustrated.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is the Managing Editor of Serious Eats (www.seriouseats.com). One of Food & Wine's "Top 40 Food Thinkers Under 40," he currently resides in Harlem with his wife and dog where he pens the “Food Lab” column for Serious Eats.com, dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of home cooking with science. He is the author of “The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science”, to be published by W. W. Norton in 2012.

The grey lady cooks! A member curated selection of recipes from Mark Bittman, Dave Pasternack, Sam Sifton, guest chefs, and more.

Morimoto has restaurants in New York, Boca Raton, and Mumbai. He is the third Iron Chef Japanese as well as an Iron Chef on Iron Chef America.

Eric Gower's "breakaway" method celebrates global ingredients and fresh local produce. Eric writes for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mayumi Nishimura—who worked as Madonna's private chef for 7 years—simplifies macrobioitc coooking. Recipes are available for a donation to the Red Cross.

Deb Perelman is a fearless cook whose blog, SmittenKitchen.com, receives over 275,000 readers each month. Based in New York City, she is the kind of person you might innocently ask what the difference is between summer and winter squash and she’ll go on for about twenty minutes before coming up for air to a cleared room and you soundly snoring. Her eagerly awaited first cookbook will reach stores sometime in 2011.

Heidi Swanson has published 2 cookbooks. Each month 250,000 people read her blog, 101cookbooks.com, which is filled with natural and whole food vegetarian recipes that are good for you, with the occasional sweet treat.