THE EAT AUTHORS

EAT: Los Angeles is a collaborative project involving some of L.A.’s hungriest and most respected food journalists. Here’s who they are.

Colleen Dunn Bates is the editor and publisher at Prospect Park Books and a longtime food and travel journalist. Her other books include Hometown Pasadena, Hometown Santa Monica and Storybook Travels. She writes about restaurants for Westways, was the longtime restaurant critic for L.A. Style, and has written for many national and regional magazines. A sixth-generation Southern Californian, Colleen lives in Pasadena.

Bandini is the hungry man of mystery behind L.A.’s Daily Taco blog.

Jean T. Barrett is a longtime wine, food and travel writer for such publications as Westways, Sky and the Los Angeles Times. The Hollywood Hills resident also co-authored three books with Colin Cowie, including Colin Cowie Weddings (Little Brown). She’s a hell of a cook, too.

Linda Burum is the author of A Guide to Ethnic Food in Los Angeles (now out of print) and an expert on international cuisines. She writes regularly for such publications as the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles. Linda lives in Santa Monica but covers all of Southern California in her never-ending quest for that great little market or secret café.

Miles Clements writes about food for the Los Angeles Times, the District Weekly and others. The Long Beach–area resident (and native) also roams the South Bay — and, indeed, all of L.A. — for his blog, Eat Food With Me.

Jenn Garbee reports on all things ingestible for the Los Angeles Times, Squid Ink (the L.A. Weekly’s food blog) and Tribune Media’s national food and beverage wire. The Santa Monica resident and former pastry chef is also the author of Secret Suppers (Sasquatch) and co-author of Hometown Santa Monica, and she’s now at work on a book about the history of women and beer.

Amelia Saltsman is the author of the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook (Blenheim Press), which has won acclaim and awards. The L.A. native and longtime Santa Monican also writes about cooking, markets and food for such magazines as Bon Appétit, and she’s a regular guest on Evan Kleiman’s Good Food show on KCRW. You’ll see her at the Wednesday Santa Monica market almost every week.

Pat Saperstein is the savvy sleuth behind L.A.’s best food blog, Eating L.A. The South Pasadena resident is also a senior editor at Daily Variety, and in her spare time she writes about restaurants for the Los Feliz Ledger and posts regularly on Chowhound. (See if you can figure out which poster she is!)

MORE OF THE EAT TEAM

Lennie LaGuire is a former Los Angeles Times editor who is now the proprietress and chief preserves maker at Ellelle; you can find some of her wares at ellellejams.com. She helped edit EAT: Los Angeles, as well as research the best eating in Koreatown.

Leah Park is a cheesemonger at the Cheese Store of Silverlake and a pastry chef at Little Flower Candy Company in Pasadena. She and Lennie explored Koreatown together.

Melody Malmberg, Sandy Gillis and Jill Alison Ganon are all co-authors of Hometown Pasadena. They shared some of their hard-earned San Gabriel Valley culinary wisdom with EAT: Los Angeles.

Joseph Shuldiner is the art director extraordinaire, as well as an accomplished fine artist and an eat-la.com blogger. He’s an L.A. native who lives in a 103-year-old former hunting lodge in Eagle Rock.