Part I: Jonathan Balcombe, What A Fish Knows

Jonathan Balcombe is the director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and the author of four previous books, including Second Nature and Pleasurable Kingdom. Visit his website at www.jonathanbalcombe.com and follow him on Twitter at @pumilla66.

 

Part II: Erin Orr, Secret Estate Illuminati Ball

Erin

Orr is a chef, storyteller, puppeteer and educator based in Brooklyn.

She endeavors to create experiences that encourage and foster community —

whether they are crafted from food, with words or via visual spectacle.

She maintains the food blog Big Sis Little Dish,

where she shares original, adapted and passed on recipes and stories

about the memories and gatherings connected to them. She is currently

executive chef for Cynthia von Buhler’s immersive theater excursion “The

Illuminati Ball.” For this she’s assembled an eight-course vegan

tasting menu that guests of the ongoing event series continue to concur

is both delicious and satisfying.