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Misc. Culinary Experts

They might not fall into a specific category but that doesn’t mean that these culinary experts don’t mean business.

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Adam Salomone

Business:Associate Publisher, The Harvard Common Press

Adam Salomone is the Associate Publisher of The Harvard Common Press, overseeing the company’s digital strategy across individual book/author brands. Digital initiatives currently underway include exploration of enhanced ebook and mobile platform applications to development of new business partners online involving content distribution and partnership. He holds a BA in Communications, with a specialization in [...]

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Amy Corley

Business:Publicist, Amy Corley Public Relations

Amy Corley is a food and lifestyle publicist. For more than 15 years, she has been publicizing best-selling authors, designers and some of the world’s top chefs and celebrated cookbook authors—Chef Thomas Keller of New York City’s Per Se, The French Laundry in Napa Valley, Ca., and Bouchon in Las Vegas; Chef Frank Stitt of [...]

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Amy Hughes

Business:Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency

Amy Hughes has 14 years of publishing experience; previously an agent with McCormick & Williams, she started her career as a publicist at Simon & Schuster, and as an editor at Penguin.  She specializes in non-fiction in the areas of history, cultural studies, memoir, current events, wellness, health, food, pop-culture and biography.  She grew up [...]

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Bruce Shaw

Business:The Harvard Common Press

Bruce Shaw acquired The Harvard Common Press in 1980 and has been the president and publisher for the past 30 years. He is responsible for the development of the company’s vertical focus in cooking and has built The Harvard Common Press into a nationally recognized publishing company in the world of food. He holds a [...]

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Cheryl Day

Business:Co-Owner Savannah's Back in the Day Bakery
Book:Co-Author The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook

Cheryl and her husband, Griffith Day, founded Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia, in 2002. They’re both self-taught bakers; Cheryl honed her skills in her mother’s and grandmother’s kitchens, and Griff’s interest in baking was piqued by the magical sourdough starter that his mother kept in the family kitchen when he was a [...]

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Craig Rogers

Business:Shepherd of Border Springs Farm
Address:Patrick Springs, VA

Craig Rogers is the Shepherd of Border Springs Farm in picturesque Patrick Springs, Virginia.  Border Springs Farm Lamb is used by the finest chefs in the South, from New Orleans to Altanta, Charleston to Louisville, KY as well as Washington DC to New York City.  The lambs at Border Springs Farm graze the foothills of [...]

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Cramer Gallimore

Business:Photographer

Cramer Gallimore is a commercial still and video photographer/social media expert based in southern North Carolina. He began shooting in Charleston and Lowcountry environs during the 80′s and considers the area his second home. (He was the official photographer for the recovery and excavation of the Civil War submarine H. L. Hunley.) Bowen’s Island, SC [...]

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Dan Long

Business:Crosby’s Seafood

Born in Key West, Dan moved to Charleston in 1965. He began to work for Crosby’s Seafood Co. in 1984 where he started at the bottom and worked his way up to the current V.P. / Wholesale Manger. Dan has a lovely wife, and is the proud father of son fourteen-year-old son, Christopher Daniel “Danny.” [...]

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Dave Belanger

Restaurant:Clammer Dave‘s Sustainable Gourmet

While people around town know him as “Clammer Dave”, David Belanger, degreed in Agriculture, has a lifetime of involvement in food production and processing.  From livestock ranching and cropping to agri-business consulting, he evolved into shellfish farming twelve years ago and raises his bounty on twenty-five acres of intertidal lands along one of Charleston’s barrier [...]

Diane Flynt

Business:President and Cidermaker at Foggy Ridge Cider

Diane Flynt, President and Cidermaker at Foggy Ridge Cider, grows heirloom apples and makes hard cider in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. Crafted from uncommon cider apples like Ahsmead’s Kernel, Roxbury Russett and Harrison, Foggy Ridge Cider’s products have been recognized in state and national competitions, including Gold Medals in the International Eastern Wine Competition [...]

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Hunter Lewis

Business:Food Editor, Bon Appétit

Hunter Lewis is the Bon Appétit food editor. Prior to that he ran the Saveur test kitchen and cooked in Sonoma County, California and at Barbuto in New York City under Jonathan Waxman. Lewis tested the recipes for Waxman’s 2007 book, A Great American Cook. An alum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel [...]

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Jeff Matevie

Business:Sterling Silver Signature Chef

bio coming soon

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Jeff Spahr

Business:localoysters.com

Jeff Spahr is a commercial oysterman who supplies only local oysters to local restaurants and residents.  Jeff is a Charleston native who grew up on the water and graduated from the College of Charleston with a degree in Business Administration.  He has several leased areas from the Department of Natural Resources where he constantly plants, [...]

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Jen Murphy

Business:Deputy Editor, AFAR
Address:San Francisco, CA

Jen Murphy is the deputy editor of AFAR, a San Francisco-based magazine focused on experiential travel. She writes Afar.com’s weekly Wandering Chef blog and is at work planning the magazine’s first food + drink issue. Prior to that she spent eight years at Food & Wine Magazine, working her way from intern to travel editor. [...]

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Jennifer Cole

Business:Southern Living, Features Editor

Mississippi-born Jennifer V. Cole is Features Editor for Southern Living magazine. After graduating from Auburn University with degrees in Economics, French, and German, she made her way to New York where she worked as an editor for Travel + Leisure. She has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ridden elephant-back through the jungles of Thailand, sailed on gulets [...]

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John Mariani

Business:Food Writer
Book:How Italian Food Conquered the World

John Mariani is an author and journalist of 30 years standing, having begun his writing for New York Magazine in 1973.  Since then, he has become known as one of America’s premiere food writers  (a three-time nominee for the James Beard Journalism Award) and author of several of the most highly regarded books on food [...]

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John T. Edge

Business:Writer

John T. Edge writes a monthly column, “United Tastes,” for the New York Times. He is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun. He is a longtime columnist for the Oxford American. He was a contributing editor at Gourmet. His magazine and newspaper work has been featured in eight editions of the Best Food Writing [...]

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Judy Pray

Business:Senior Editor, Artisan

Judy Pray is a senior editor at Artisan Books specializing in cookbooks. She has edited cookbooks by Sean Brock, Tom Colicchio, Alice Medrich, Cheryl and Griffith Day, and Edward Lee, among others. She was previously senior editor at Clarkson Potter. She resides in New York City.

Karalee Nielsen

Bio coming soon.

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Lauren Purcell

Business:Editor in Chief, Every Day with Rachael Ray

Editor in Chief Lauren Purcell joined Every Day with Rachael Ray in early 2012.  She is the co-author of Cocktail Parties, Straight Up! Easy Hors D’oeuvres, Delicious Drinks and Inspired Ideas for Entertaining with Style and Secrets to Confident Entertaining, a highly popular digital brand. Prior to EveryDay with Rachael Ray, Purcell served as Executive [...]

Maria Baldwin

Business:Thorn Hill Farms

Bio coming soon.

Martha Walters + Devon Spence

Business:The Magic Cheese Truck

Bio’s coming soon.

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Mickey Bakst

Restaurant:Charleston Grill at Charleston Place
Address:224 King Street, Charleston, SC 29401

Bio coming soon.     Photo by: Christoper Shane

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Nick Unangst

Business:Sterling Silver Signature Chef

Chef Nick Unangst is Executive Chef and Managing Partner of Skull Creek Boathouse. He previously was chef for The SERG Restaruant Group’s Frankie Bones Restaurant & Lounge. He had been Executive Chef and Managing Partner there for 5 years and helped to open the restaurant. His training comes from working in a St. Louis Italian [...]

Nikki Seibert

Business:Agriculture Director for Lowcountry Local First

Bio coming soon.

Patti & Mike Cohen

Business:goat. sheep. cow

Bio coming soon.

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Peter Frank Edwards

Business:Photographer

A travel, food and lifestyle photographer, Peter Frank Edwards contributes to some of the world’s leading magazines, including Travel+Leisure, Islands, Food & Wine, Southern Living, and Garden & Gun. He has recently completed two book projects — Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen and Cool Inside: Hank’s Seafood Restaurant,  and has several others in progress .  His [...]

Robert Barber

Bio coming soon.

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Timmons Pettigrew

Business:Craft Beer Enthusiast + Writer

Timmons Pettigrew is a local craft beer enthusiast, writer, South Carolina native, and twelfth-year Charlestonian.  His book, Charleston Beer: A High-Gravity History of Lowcountry Brewing, was released in October of 2011 by The History Press.  It’s the city’s first beer-exclusive tome, covering everything from colonial breweries to the major players in today’s booming beer culture.  [...]

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Travis Croxton

Business:Rappahannock River Oysters, LLC
Address:Studley, VA

Travis Croxton graduated from the University of Richmond in 1997 with a BS in Business Administration. He then worked in London for a year at the Industrial Bank of Japan in the back office of an investment bank before returning to Richmond for a 5-year stint at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. During that [...]

Trudi Wagner

Business:goat. sheep. cow.

Bio coming soon.

Victor Lafayette

Bio coming soon.

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Warren Bobrow

Business:Writer

Warren Bobrow grew up on a  farm in Morristown, NJ. Warren Bobrow is the Food and Drink Editor of the 501c3 non profit Wild Table in Wild River Review located in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans as a cultural raconteur and a desirable Media badge. Warren is a [...]