SUSIE WARD, born and raised in Southern California, has been settled in England for the last 25 years. She concentrates on food, cookery, and travel writing and her appetite for learning about other cultures and cuisines is insatiable. Her books include The Art of the Picnic, Finger Food, Lebanese Cooking, Russian Cooking and, her latest, A Flavor of Provence.
CLAIRE CLIFTON is an American author, journalist, and artist who has lived in England since the late 1960s. She and her partner, Colin Spencer, farm two allotments in Winchelsea, a small coastal town, and together edited the anthology The Faber Book of Food.
JENNY STACEY is a freelance food writer and stylist. She has worked for several major women's magazines styling features and testing and originating her own recipes.