CANDICE MILLARD is a former writer and editor at "National Geographic" magazine. She lives in Kansas City.
Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco's fabled The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone's, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soule's Le Pavillon, food historian Paul Freedman uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation.
J. Lee Annis Jr., Silver Spring, Maryland, has taught history at Montgomery College for the past thirty years. He is the author of Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis, and, with Senator William H. Frist, the coauthor of Tennessee Senators, 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change. He is currently chairman of the History and Political Science Department at the Rockville campus of Montgomery College.
Sally Palmer Thomason, Memphis, Tennessee, was born, raised, and educated in California but has lived in Memphis over fifty years. She retired as the dean of continuing and corporate education at Rhodes College and has authored three books.
Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of numerous novels and short story collections. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
