Dan Pashman is the James Beard and Webby Award-winning creator and host of The Sporkful food podcast. In 2021 Dan released cascatelli, a new pasta shape that he invented, and told the story of its creation in a series on The Sporkful called “Mission: ImPASTAble.” Cascatelli was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021 and The Sporkful was selected by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Podcasts of 2021. Dan is also a contributor to NPR and Milk Street Radio. Dan and his work have been featured on The Today Show, Radiolab, Guy's Grocery Games, Morning Edition, WTF with Marc Maron, Planet Money, Beat Bobby Flay, Freakonomics Radio, and more. He lives outside New York City with his wife and two daughters.

J. Kenji López-Alt is a chef, parent, and New York Times best-selling author of The Food Lab (winner of the James Beard Award for General Cooking, and International Association of Culinary Professionals’ Book of the Year) and Every Night Is Pizza Night, illustrated by Gianna Ruggiero. He is a wildly popular New York Times food columnist, and the host of Kenji’s Cooking Show, with over a million subscribers on YouTube. He lives in Seattle, WA.