Raluca Micu

  photo by Leigh Quinnell   Romanian-born Raluca Micu is the owner/baker of West London's OCTOBER 26, a one woman bakery that specializes in sourdough. Having studied marketing in college, and completed a Masters in public relations,...

Roberto Liberati

  Roberto Liberati owns one of Rome's great butcher shops. Located on the city's outskirts in the Tuscolano neighborhood, Bottega Liberati was started by Roberto's father in the 1960s. He became a center to delight customers with education as...

Bob Cook

  Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Cypress is prize-winning restaurant that also runs the Artisan Meat Share. Bob Cook is Chef de Cusine at both. Growing up in the mid-west, his first kitchen job was as a teenager at local golf club in Harbor Springs, Michigan. By...

Egoitz Fernandez

I met Egoitz Fernandez (Fagus) at the pop up started by Dan Lepard and Iban Yarra in Donostia (San Sebastian) Spain. My first memory of this handsome Basque was of someone very quiet and intently focused on tending the oven, totally attentive to the craft. Since then...

Yohan Ferrant

Yohan Ferrant is a terrific baker who now lives in Spain.  Originally from France, he has worked many places, including London's acclaimed St. John Bread & Wine. I met him in on/in the global capital so many of us...