Brys Stephens
Before co-founding Cookthink, Brys plonked around in the wine business, working in sales and marketing for American Premium Beverage (a major wine distributor in the Southeast) and later in PR and viticultural management for Joseph Phelps Vineyards, whose 2002 Insignia was recently named Wine Spectator’s “Wine of the Year.” Brys has spent countless hours in the kitchen, watched an unhealthy number of cooking shows and dog-eared his huge library of cookbooks and food magazines. He has also wandered the globe, feeding off of local markets and back-road farmstands. A native of Alabama, Brys now lives in Washington, D.C., where you will periodically find him sermonizing about quinoa from a bench in Rose Park. Email him at brys [at] cookthink.com.

Chip Brantley
Chip Brantley is the author of The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot. Prior to co-founding Cookthink, Chip was the head cheesemaker at Westfield Farm, an artisanal cheese company in central Massachusetts. Before his career in cheese, Chip worked a series of writing and editing jobs, including a stint as a regular food writer for the San Francisco Examiner. Over the past decade, he has contributed to such publications as Slate, the Boston Globe, the Oxford American and Gastronomica. Chip lives in Alabama with his wife Elizabeth, their son Angus, and their one-eyed cat, Evangeline. Visit him at www.chipbrantley.com.