Emma Rosenbush is the general manager at Cala in San Francisco, Chef Gabriela Cámara’s outpost of the renowned seafood restaurant Contramar in Mexico City. Before opening Cala, Emma stared an experimental pop-up restaurant in Mexico City called Pichón with Niki Nakazawa (who we interviewed on Delicious Revolution #9) and Kenny Curran. Prior to her time in Mexico, she worked at the Prison Law Office in Berkeley, where she decided that if she was ever responsible for hiring workers, she would hire former inmates. She is now leading the way in welcoming formerly incarcerated individuals into full-time, visible ...

Jessica Battilana writes about food and the people who make it. Her first solo cookbook, Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need, was just released this spring. She has co-authored five cookbooks: Vietnamese Home Food, with Charles Phan, chef/owner of the Slanted Door; Tartine Book 3, with Tartine owner Chad Robertson; Sausage Making: A Definitive Guide with Recipes, a collaboration with butcher Ryan Farr; Home Cooked, with Anya Fernald; and Home Grown: Cooking From My New England Roots with Matt Jennings, chef of Boston’s Townsman. Jessica also writes a bi-monthly column for the San Francisco Chronicle Food Section.

Bini Pradhan, born in Kathmandu, Nepal, has many years of experience in the Nepali Food Industry and a Bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management Catering. She started at La Cocina in 2013, and now is the owner and chef of Bini’s Kitchen. You can find her food at 1 Post Street, Whole Foods Markets, Off the Grid Fort Mason, Drives Market, The Market in Twitter Building, CUESA Ferry Building, CUESA Jack London Sq., Off the Grid Presidio, and catering and events.

Rachel is the first San Francisco restaurant critic for Eater and has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Lucky Peach, among many other publications. She’s the author of Look Big and other tips for surviving animal encounters of all kinds, and she has appeared on NPR’s Marketplace, KQED’s Forum and on stage at Pop-Up Magazine.

Chris Colin has written about endangered pasta, Obama’s Irish roots, chimp filmmakers, ethnic cleansing, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, the Yelpification of the universe and much more for the NewYorker.com, The New York Times Magazine, Saveur, and Pop-Up Magazine, among other publications. He’s a contributing writer for California Sunday Magazine and Afar, and the author of What to Talk About, What Really Happened to the Class of ’93, and Blindsight, named one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2011. In 2015, he co-wrote This Is Camino, which was nominated for a James Beard award.