MILLICENT K. BRODY (Cooking Fresh) is mesmerized by shops, markets and restaurants where shelves and menus are filled with delectable offerings. A food and features writer, she enjoys the challenge of creating a profoundly interesting story. Never one to leave her Westfield home without her camera, she has won many awards for photography.

VINCENT CLYNE (A Hillside in Finesville) writes of family and food, travel and wine and is working on a book proposal with the Culinary Institute of America. He sold his Westfield "scratch kitchen" café after 20 years to pursue wine studies at the CIA in Napa Valley and to travel through China and South America alert for foods and wines, recipes and cultures that expand mind and menu.

CAROL COREN (To Market) is a business development specialist with expertise in cooperatives, community development, social enterprise, marketing and the food industry. She serves as a Business Association Mentor for Rutgers University's Food Innovation Center and works with entrepreneurs, community groups and rural service organizations on projects ranging from coastal windmills to food product development.

LARISSA CURLIK fell in love with food and farming while working on organic gardens in Maine. After graduating from Bowdoin College, Larissa returned to New Jersey to work on a dairy farm and to learn more about sustainable food. She is now a freelance writer in her hometown, Westfield, and the editor of Edible Jersey’s bi-weekly e-newsletter.

SHERRY DUDAS (Gaining Ground) and her husband, Jim Kinsel, are managers of Honey Brook Organic Farm, one of the oldest organic farms in New Jersey and the largest Community Supported Agriculture program in the nation. She came to the farm with over 10 years of conservation and farmland preservation experience, and was the state’s first Right to Farm Program Manager.

BETH FEEHAN (To Market) is cofounder of the West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market and a graduate of Rutgers University School of Journalism and the French Culinary Institute in New York. She has worked as a caterer and chef and currently is working with school districts in New Jersey to bring local produce into school lunch programs.

PATRICIA KLINDIENST (Jersey Diner) is a master gardener and an award-winning scholar and teacher. Her first book, The Earth Knows My Name (Beacon Press, 2006), tells the stories of fifteen ethnic Americans who transmit their cultural heritage through their gardens, and earned an American Book Award for 2007. The New Jersey native currently lives in Guilford, Connecticut.

JEN A. MILLER (Sun Sense) is author of The Jersey Shore, Atlantic City to Cape May: Great Destinations, a travel guide about the South Jersey Shore that was published in May. Read more about her shore adventures (and misadventures) at downtheshorewithjen.blogspot.com.

GARY C. PAVLIS (Sampling the Local Suds) is a professor and agricultural agent at Rutgers University, where he works with his number one passion, wine. A leading authority on growing grapes in New Jersey, Dr. Pavlis only travels to places that make wine and, when asked to name his favorite, responds, “Whatever wine someone else pays for.”

JULIE PRYMA (Under Basil's Spell) is a designer, photographer and former art director of the magazine Saveur. Her interest in food and travel led her from Toronto to Tokyo, London and New York. She now lives with her husband and their two little boys in South Orange, where they enjoy exploring local eateries, markets and bike trails.

JOSHUA ROSENTHAL (Thoughts on Salt) is the founder, director and primary teacher of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City (integrativenutrition.com). The school offers students access to the world’s foremost authorities on health and nutrition and teaches the pros and cons of more than 100 different dietary theories. 

LAURA SAYRE (Gelato Girl) is a writer and part-time farmer currently based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She lived for six years in Princeton, where she completed a Ph.D. at Princeton University. Formerly senior writer/associate editor for NewFarm.org, she was recently awarded a postdoctoral fellowship with Yale University's Program in Agrarian Studies.  Laura recently joined Edible Jersey as managing editor.

MEGAN WETHERALL (Under Basil's Spell) is a freelance writer specializing in food, wine and travel. The James Beard Award-winner has been featured in three of the annual Best Food Writing anthologies and is a former associate editor of Saveur. Originally from Sydney and a former resident of Paris, the South Orange resident still loves to travel whenever possible, her two small children in tow. 

JEFF WOJTASZEK (Kitchen Cupboard) is a professional photographer based in the greater Philadelphia region. A strong foundation for his craft was laid at Antonelli School of Photography, where he graduated in 2001 and was awarded Most Outstanding Portfolio of his graduating class. More of his work is on display at www.jeffwojtaszek.com