About the Author

Nichole Accettola is a CIA-trained chef and the owner of Kantine, a Scandinavia-inspired restaurant located in San Francisco servingbreakfast, lunch, and snackswith a gorgeous menu of pastries, porridge and jewel-likesm rrebr dsandwiches. Her cafe has garnered glowing reviews from media such as San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out, and Eater.

Malena Watrous has worked as a recipe tester for Melissa Clark and written about food, books, and travel for the New York Times, Allure, Conde Nast Traveler and Salon. She is the author of the novel If You Follow Me. She leads the Online Writer's Studio at Stanford University, where she teaches fiction and food writing.