Time for Lunch Campaign: From the non-profit Slow Food USA, this very important campaign aims to send a message to Congress to help them understand that our underfunded school lunch programs (giving schools only $1/child per meal ingredients) are unacceptable.
Yoga Bear is a national non-profit providing cancer patients and survivors with more opportunities for wellness and healing through the practice of yoga. To date, Yoga Bear has provided over $100,000 worth of free yoga classes in over 200 partner yoga studios and four hospitals.
Ash Huang is a designer living in San Francisco. Her parents came to the states after college and developed a serious crush on good eating. As a result, Ash grew up on a combination of traditional Chinese, Italian, French and American cooking. Although she misses New York hot dogs, donuts, bagels, gushers and greasy pizza, she is happily making the transition to a flexitarian diet thanks to the Bay Area's awesome produce.
Analisa Shah grew up in a household with a variety of eaters. She watched her mother and Lola cook nightly for the carnivores, vegetarians and vegans in the home. With a mixed heritage of Indian, Chinese and Filipino, she never wants to leave the eclectic food selection of the Bay Area.
Halle Tecco came up with the idea for this book after years of collecting recipes that pleased her eclectic group of friends made up of vegans, vegetarians, and carnivores. Halle is passionate about healthy living, and stumbled across the slow food movement while living in Rome for six months in 2005. She writes about social innovation for Huffington Post and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and is a full time MBA student at Harvard Business School. She is also the Founder & Executive Director of Yoga Bear, one of the beneficiaries of this project.
Julia Gartland is the creator of the Sassy Kitchen blog and Sassy Gourmet Bakery, both devoted to vegan, gluten-free food. Being intolerant to most foods herself, she enjoys transforming meals she can't eat into meals she can. She bakes and blogs out of NYC.
Kim Stakal is the creator of The Green Gourmet, and has a delicious habit of sticking too many fingers in too many pots. As a freelance recipe developer, food writer, and culinary consultant, she satisfies her love of all things food by constantly making it, writing about it, or talking about it. Having followed a strict vegan for six years, as well as raw, Macrobiotics, and purely carnivorous diets, Kim empathizes will all colors of the dietary spectrum and just asks that the food be real, nourishing, and scrumptious.
Sarah Nash is a college student and recent flexitarian convert. She goes to school in Boston, hates the snow, and longs every day for the fresh produce of her native Bay Area. She was fortunate enough to have a mother who dragged her to the farmer’s market every Saturday morning and instilled in her an appreciation for good food. She loves cooking, horses and singing in the shower and is trying to figure out what she wants to do when she grows up.
Rose DiPietrantonio lives to eat. Her family is extremely food-centric and her parents, born in Mexico and Italy, stressed the importance of fresh produce and home cooked family meals. During her time in the Peace Corps, fresh meat was scarce in her vilage so she became a flexitarian and learned how to grow her own herbs and vegetables. She currently lives in Santa Cruz, CA, where farmer’s markets are abundant and organic, local food is sold in almost every grocery store. After law school, Rose plans to return to sunny California where she can enjoy the diversity of cultures, food, and people.
