Gluttony: Deconstructing Dinner

Speakers

Speakers

Steve Ettlinger

Steve Ettlinger has been an author, editor, and book producer since 1985, and has helped create over forty books, all but two in the popular reference area. His books explain complex and daunting but common things like wine, artificial food ingredients, and DIY hardware.

A selection of just some of those titles accounts for over a million copies sold. His seventh and most recent book is "Twinkie, Deconstructed," which describes where artificial food ingredients come from and how they are made. He has written or edited books on ethnic cuisines, beer, and kitchenware, contributed to web sites, and helped create the bestselling series, "Wine for Dummies". Ettlinger is an occasional contributor to the Huffington Post (see all posts by clicking here) and The Daily Beast, and has written Op-Ed pieces for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Sun.

Dwight Eschliman

Dwight Eschliman has been living and working in San Francisco for over ten years. His work spans a variety of subjects, from athletic shoes to Legos, clean rooms to castles in Germany, the newest tech products to Twinkie ingredients. His editorial photography appears in New York Times Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Esquire, GQ, Details, New York Magazine, Dwell, and Wired. Dwight's advertising projects include Apple, Palm, Clorox, Scion, Microsoft, Adidas, Absolut, Audi, Jawbone, T Mobile, HP, and Beautifull.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Chief Creative Officer, Serious Eats

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is the Chief Creative Officer of the Serious Eats family of websites, the largest independent food blog in the world. After graduating from MIT, he learned the craft of cooking the traditional way—working his way up from prep cook to chef at many of Boston's top restaurants including No. 9 Park and Clio. He spent the next three years as an editor at Cook's Illustrated Magazine in Brookline, MA, where he produced some of the most innovative recipes the magazine has printed, as well as cohosting several episodes of the public television show America's Test Kitchen. He currently resides in Harlem, New York with his wife and dogs where he pens the "Food Lab" column for Serious Eats.com, dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of home cooking with science. He is the co-author of "Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide To Making and Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are," published by Clarkson-Potter, and the author of the upcoming "The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science", to be published by W. W. Norton in 2014.

Moderator

Dan Pashman

Dan Pashman is the creator and host of the James Beard Award-nominated podcast and blog The Sporkful, where he discusses, debates and obsesses over ridiculous food minutiae, in search of new and better ways to eat. He likes to say "It's not for foodies, it's for eaters." He's also a contributor to NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and the co-host of Slate's Table to Farm podcast and Cooking Channel's "Good to Know." He's currently working on the first Sporkful book, to be published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster.