Jeff Miller is a former newspaper delivery boy from Kent, Ohio, and is a top scorer in coffee drinking. The Nerdy Dozen is his first novel.
Jonathan Deutsch is an assistant professor and director of the Culinary Management Center in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. He is the coeditor (with Annie Hauck-Lawson) ofGastropolis: Food and New York City. nbsp; Rachel D. Saks is a nutritionist and a graduate student at New York University. She works as a personal chef and cooking teacher.