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LucianaSquadrilli is a food and travel writer based in Rome. Senior editor at Food&Wine Italia magazine, she also contributes as a free lance to many other publications, both in Italy and abroad, mostly about pizza and extra virgin olive oil. She's also a passionate cheese lover, earning the level 1 tasting certificate at ONAF, the Italian Cheese Tasters Organization.

Patrick Ambrosio is a veteran cheesemonger and the owner of The Town Cheesemonger in Huntington, New York. A former chef, he is an alumni of The French Culinary Institute (now The International Culinary Center) in New York. A professional guitarist since his teens, he currently performs with The Huntington Blues All-Stars.

Hollie Stephens is an award-winning freelance writer originally from London and currently based in New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in VinePair, Pellicle, Hop Culture, and other publications. View more bylines at holliestephens.com, and follow her on Twitter @GlobeHops

Amber Selene Turpin is a freelance food and travel writer based in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She is a regular contributor to The Mercury News, Edible Magazines, 7x7 and the Slow Wine Guide, with work appearing in Civil Eats, EatingWell Magazine, and many other publications over the last fifteen years. You can find her on Instagram @bonanzasprings.

Allison Levine is owner of Please The Palate, a marketing and event-planning agency. A freelance writer, she contributes to numerous publications while eating and drinking her way around the world. Allison is also the host of the wine podcast Wine Soundtrack USA and a co-host of Crush On This videos on YouTube. Contact her at all...@pleasethepalate.com.

Lynda Balslev is an award winning writer and cookbook author living in Northern California, who focuses on food, wine, and travel. She is the author of five cookbooks and the nationally syndicated column and blog TasteFood. Her work has appeared in NPR, Eating Well, and Culture Cheese Magazine, among others. Lynda was selected as a 2018 fellow for the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers at Meadowood Napa, and she is the Chronicle Books award recipient to the Symposium for Professional Food Writers. Her favorite food-group is cheese, with an emphasis on stinky. Follow Lynda on instagram @tastefoodtravel or visit LyndaBalslev.com.

Tania Banerjee is a freelance writer from Kolkata based in Mumbai, India. She writes about travel, culture, environment and food. Her work has appeared in Whetstone, The Juggernaut, Lonely Planet, Business Line and more. You can find her on Instagram @taniabanerjee, Twitter @taniabanerjee, and her blog, Azure Sky Follows.

Paroma Bhattacharya is a passionate content creator and writer. She possesses extensive knowledge in subjects related to healthcare, technology, banking, and more. Her articles focus primarily on balancing relevant data with engaging storytelling. She believes in providing objective facts to help people make important business decisions.

Jennifer Billock is an award-winning writer, bestselling author, and editor; co-host of the Macabre Traveler podcast; and editor of the Kitchen Witch Newsletter. She is currently dreaming of an around-the-world trip with her Boston terrier. Check out her website at jenniferbillock.com, and follow her on Twitter @jenniferbillock and Instagram @jenniferjoanbillock.

Stacy Brooks is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist specializing in food and travel. Her writing has been published in Cheese Connoisseur, Wine Enthusiast, and Hemispheres, and she blogs at Tangled Up In Food.

Adam is a professional wine and cheese educator who lives in the Boston area. He is also a culinary travel writer who has appeared in Saveur Magazine, Culture Cheese Magazine, Edible South Shore, and other print and online publications. His first book, Tasting Wine and Cheese - An Insider's Guide to Mastering the Principles of Pairing, was a finalist for Cookbook of the Year for the International Association of Culinary Professionals. He can be reached at ad...@eatdrinklearn.com, and through his website, www.eatdrinklearn.com. Follow him on Instagram: @eatdrinklearn

Carissa Chesanek is a writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in The Miami Herald, Food Network, Forbes Travel Guide, Tasting Table, and Zagat where she was the local dining editor for two years.

Christine Clark is a professional cheese and beverage nerd. She is a Certified Cheese Professional by the American Cheese Society. Her work has appeared in VinePair, Bon Appetit, Travel + Leisure, and AFAR and she has taught cheese and pairing classes across the United States. In her spare time, she plays with her chocolate lab and thinks about what she'll be eating next. Follow her latest adventures @yourcheesefriend or yourcheesefriend.com.

Sheana Davis is a Sonoma-based cheesemaker, caterer, culinary educator and proprietor of The Epicurean Connection. With over 25 years of farm-to-table experience, Davis creates Wine Country inspired edible experiences for food enthusiasts, engaging and inspiring cheese lovers through the process of creating fresh, delicious cheeses and a series of collaboration cheeses. Her award-winning cheeses including Delice de la Vallee and Creme de Fromage and seasonal creations are served at culinary events and Michelin-starred restaurants. Learn more at theepicureanconnection.com.

Laine Doss is the food and spirits editor for Miami New Times. She has been featured on Cooking Channel's Eat Street and Food Network's Great Food Truck Race. Laine won an Alternative Weekly award for her feature on what it's like to wait tables. Laine has also served as a judge at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash, hosted by Bobby Flay. The most important things in her life are her dogs, wine, and cheese.

Georgia Freedman is a freelance journalist and editor based in the Bay Area. Georgia has written for Food & Wine, the Wall Street Journal, Afar, Martha Stewart Living, and many other publications and is the author of two cookbooks. She also produces the newsletter the California Table, which celebrates home cooks and home cooking from all across her home state.

Amanda is a spirits, food, and travel journalist who's called Brooklyn home for a decade. Besides Alcohol Professor, her work has appeared in the publications Matador, Eater, Travel + Leisure and The Manual. When she's not hunting for vintage glassware, you can find her mixing Daiquiris at home or scouring New York City for the best Martinis. Follow: Website Instagram

Phil Galewitz has been writing about the the craft brewing industry for a decade, including five years for The Alcohol Professor. He lives in Washington D.C. While beer was his first culinary love, cheese now tops on his list. Twitter: @philgalewitz. Instagram: @philmorebeer.

Mike Gerrard is an award-winning writer who specialises in travel writing and writing about spirits. He combines the two in his website, Travel Distilled. He lives half the year in Cambridgeshire in England and the other half in Arizona, follow him on Twitter as @Mike_Gerrard, @TravelDistilled.

Sarah J. Gim cooks, styles, photographs, and writes about food and drink from her home base in Los Angeles. She is the founder of TasteSpotting, a community-curated food, drink, and recipe content platform and community, and TheDeliciousLife.com, the online home of her personal writings on food, wine, dining out, and relationships. Her work has been featured in Glamour, Vogue, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and on camera for the FoodNetwork. You can follow Sarah's daily delicious escapades with her pups on instagram @TheDelicious.

Longtime food writer, Lisa Waterman Gray, loves creamy to crumbly, and mellow to pungent cheeses. During her travels, she has sampled cheese curds, in Wisconsin, sheep milk cheese in Missouri, and a plethora of cheeses at J.A. Moisin, in Quebec City. She makes a mean quiche and delicious, original cheesecakes such as Limoncello (featured during a special dinner at a Kansas City-area Italian restaurant) or Raspberry Chipotle. Waterman Gray also enjoys visiting dairy operations to see where milk and cheese come from. Learn more about her food writing at lisawatermangray.com.

Jennifer Greco has steadily been tasting her way through each and every cheese produced in France, a project that started one day on a whim and that has developed into a full-fledged infatuation. To date, she has tasted just under 400 of the approximately 1500 cheeses in France. Based in Paris, she leads virtual cheese workshops, gourmet food and wine tours, and small group tastings, which can be booked through her website, and with Paris by Mouth. She writes about regional French cheeses on her blog, Chez Loulou, and for a handful of publications. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

Julia Gross is a rogue cheesemonger and mezcal writer currently based out of Portland and Mexico. Her obsession with cheese, travel and everything related has taken her all over the world from alleyways in Thailand to underground hot springs in Guatemala. She is currently working on a photo series of mezcal producers in Oaxaca and exploring wine and cheese country in Queretaro, Mexico. She is objectively great at karaoke.

Kristine Hansen is a Milwaukee food, drink, travel, and design writer and author of Wisconsin Cheese Cookbook: Creamy, Cheesy, Sweet, and Savory Recipes from the State's Best Creameries and Wisconsin Farmers Markets: Tours, Trails and Attractions, both from Globe Pequot Press. She also contributes to Milwaukee Magazine, nationalgeographic.com, architecturaldigest.com, travelandleisure.com, and marthastewart.com.

Hannah Howard spent her formative years in New York eating, drinking, serving, bartending, cooking on a hot line, flipping giant wheels of cheese, and managing restaurants. She is the author of Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen and Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family. She writes for New York Magazine, Salon, and SELF and teaches food writing classes. She lives in Frenchtown, NJ and loves stinky cheese.

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