Peter Kaminsky's cookbooks include collaborations with Daniel Boulud, Michel Richard, Francis Mallmann, and Sheila Lukins. His outdoors column has appeared in the New York Times for more than twenty-five years. Kaminsky has contributed frequently to Food & Wine and is the author of Pig Perfect and Culinary Intelligence. He is also one of the creators and executive producers of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Dominic Garnett has been hooked on lure fishing for over three decades, ever since catching small perch on spinners as a child.

Also a guide and photographer, his lively, original writing has spanned a huge range of published work, from his weekly Angling Times column The Far Bank, to books including Flyfishing For Coarse Fish, Canal Fishing and the anthology of tales Crooked Lines.