Louisa Chu is a chef and writer. Recipient of a James Beard Foundation Scholarship and graduate of Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Louisa worked at the Paris Michelin three-star restaurant Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athenee and Les Ambassadeurs at the Hotel de Crillon. She's currently a columnist for CHOW magazine and has appeared on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations on the Travel Channel. She will soon be seen on Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie on PBS in the US and Chic Eats on Discovery International. Louisa also publishes the food blog Movable Feast.

Carolin C. Young, a lifelong foodie and Francophile, has been researching the history of artful dining since 1997. She holds a Royal Society of Arts Diploma from Christie's Education, London and is the author of Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver; Stories of Dinner as a Work of Art (2002, Simon & Schuster). A Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, Young lectures widely and has created several historically inspired banquets and events, most notably for the Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York. A native New Yorker transplanted to Paris, she is currently writing an irreverent history of the fork and building a 10-ft. boiled egg inspired by Salvador Dali.

Sarah Vandenhende, an American from New York, couldn't find a better place than Paris to combine her passions in life: Fashion, Art and Food. This "touche-a-tout", has lived in the Marais section of Paris for over twenty years, where she capitalized on her fashion experience at Vogue Magazine to develop and market a leather glove Collection for Fendi and Adriste while launching the Galerie Orem, which specializes in Chinese Contemporary Art. If that wasn't enough, Sarah indulged in her love for food and recently completed the Intermerdiate cooking classes at the famous "Le Cordon Bleu".

Originally from the Deep-South, Paris-based food writer and Context docent Wendy Lyn guides savvy travelers to the very best of culinary Paris with tailor-made itineraries and experiences. She has been featured in Condé Nast Traveller, Luxe City Guides Paris and Food Arts Magazine and is also the Founder|Editor of The Paris Kitchen™ - www.thepariskitchen.com, publishing weekly on-line culinary news, profiles on people in food, tasting notes, hot lists of where to eat now, seasonal ingredients with recipes and reader Q&A and more. Wendy's culinary expertise began as a child shelling peas on the porch with her grandfather, to living in Paris, and later working as a Public Relations-Media Advisor for Chef Charlie Trotter, the Alain Ducasse Groupe USA, chocolate-maker Jacques Torres, The South Beach Food & Wine Festival, and the inaugural launch of the red Michelin Guide New York City 2006.

Native Parisian Philippe Engammare's love affair with food and cooking began when he was six years old. By the time he was eight, he was preparing entire meals for eight-person family. Today he runs a catering and teaching organization called Paris Chef and leads market walks and other culinary programs for Context. As a rule, Philippe does all of his food shopping exclusively on bicycle at his neighborhood stores and markets. Visit his website at www.parischef.fr

Camille Labro is a Franco-American who has spent her life between France and the United States. She was born in Berkeley, California, where she became a member of the Chez Panisse family. She was raised in Provence, then spent ten years in New York (working as a correspondent for French Vogue) before returning to Paris. In addition to her career in the French media (magazines as well as TV and radio), she has contributed to the Slow Food Guidebook and the Insight Guide's Food Guide to Paris, and has worked as a food editor for the Paris Times, Biba, and the Lifestyle supplements of La Tribune. She's also the author of the guidebook New York Confidential (Assouline, 1999) and is currently working on a culinary documentary for TV, and a cookbook, about her mum's Provencal cuisine. A gourmet and home cook as well, she's dedicated to making the best and purest food with local, seasonal produce.

Marie has always been passionate about food and wine. After obtaining a Master's in Wine she worked for a while in the wine industry in France and in the US. Upon returning to France she decided to pursue her love of food by studying under various high-level and even Michelin-starred Parisian chefs. In 2008, she created Kitchen Barn (www.kitchenbarn.com), a chef-at-home and catering company. Open-minded, she loves to mix various food influences. She is always looking for new tastes and new flavors to create perfect pairings. Farmers' markets, restaurants and walks are some of the good ways for her to find inspiration. And a simple stroll in Paris might turn into a real trip – a voyage of the senses.

Barbra discovered her love of food when what was supposed to be a year off before graduate school turned into a decade of dessert making, first in Colorado and then New York City, where she worked at the restaurants Washington Park, Prune, and Cookshop, among others. Many trips and countless meals later, she's now a freelance writer living in Paris, where she publishes the blog Serve It Forth.

Meg Zimbeck came to Paris for a job in public health but developed an "un"healthy addiction to the city's food and wine. That obsession has been channeled through her fingertips and into more than 500 articles about eating and drinking in Paris. Now a full-time food and travel writer, Meg's words can be found in publications like the Wall Street Journal, Budget Travel and GEO as well as uppity urban guides like BlackBook and Gridskipper. Paris has been her home for more than five years.