Mark Bittman is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. For three decades, Bittman contributed stories and recipes about cooking and food policy for the New York Times. He and daughter Kate currently co-host the podcast, Food with Mark Bittman and the online magazine, The Bittman Project. Most recently, he's begun Bittman's NYC, a bread delivery program, and piloting a sliding-scale restaurant concept, Community Kitchen.
DAVID KATZ started as one of the first ten employees on Barack Obama’s Senate campaign and spent approximately nine months driving, photographing, and serving the would-be president during the 2004 Senate campaign. In 2008, Katz returned after graduating from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business to become the official campaign photographer, a position he held from July to November 2008. After Obama was elected president, Katz served in the Energy Department and at the White House in numerous policy roles. He is a frequent golf partner of President Obama and now a technology executive in San Francisco.