Angela Dimayuga is a chef, creative, and cultural tastemaker. She has been named to Zagat’s 30 Under 30 list, honored as a James Beard Rising Star Chef finalist, and awarded Best Chef by New York magazine. Born in northern California to immigrant Filipino parents, she gained renown as the executive chef of Mission Chinese Food in New York and as the creative director of food and culture for the Standard Hotels worldwide. Based in New York, she is an associate artist and culinary curator at Performance Space New York, the culinary advisor to the Lower East Side Girls Club, and an advocate for marginalized voices.
Ligaya Mishan writes for the New YorkTimes and T magazine. A finalist for the National Magazine Awards and the James Beard Awards, she has also written for the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, and her essays have been selected for the Best American anthologies in Magazine, Food, and Travel Writing. The daughter of a Filipino mother and a British father, she grew up in Honolulu, Hawai'i.