Martin Rosberg is a former hotelier turned natural cheesemaker and baker from Argentina that now lives in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, a ferry ride across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires.

Sanjay Thakur is a chef from Himachal Pradesh, the mountainous, far northern part of India. Through cooking, teaching, and film making, he has been working to spread awareness of India's Himalayan cuisine.

Farmer Lee Jones runs The Chef’s Garden, his family farm in Huron, Ohio. He is the author of The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables – with Recipes.

Laura Lazzaroni is a writer, baker, and consultant based in Milan, Italy. She is the author of the recently released cookbook The New Cucina Italiana: What to Eat, What to Cook, and Who to Know in Italian Cuisine today, from Rizzoli Books.

Sarela Herrada is the co-founder of the food company SIMPLi. Born in
Peru, but based in Washington DC, Herrada is helping re-shape the trade of products like quinoa, olive oil, and açaí in a way that’s better for farmers, the environment, and consumers.

Andrés Morataya is a chef that lives in the on the far coast of the Azuero Peninsula in Panama, in a place called Playa Venao, where he once ran the restaurant Panga. He talks about his new life as a private chef, the beauty of Panama, and the hardships of the restaurant industry.

Stephanie Bonnin is a chef and documentary filmmaker from Barranquilla, Colombia. Her project La Tropi-Kitchen, a pop-up restaurant in New York, specializes in regional Colombian cooking.

Gunnar Gíslason is the chef and owner of Dill in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the author of North: The New Nordic Cuisine of Iceland. For more than a decade, Gíslason has been helping resurrect Iceland’s ancestral foodways.

Joseph Archbold is the chef of the restaurants Receta Michila and Octo in Bocas del Toro, Panama. After working at top restaurants in France, he took over the kitchen of the hotel his mother once cooked at while working to strengthen the island’s foodways and resurrect recipes that were being forgotten.

Mycologist, author, and lecturer Giuliana Furci is the founder of the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO dedicated to fungi in the world. Here she discusses why the mushrooms are so great in Chile, how fungi is the foundation for all life on earth, and why Santa Claus is based on an indigenous mushroom trip.