Food & Beverage

Matt Pittman, pitmaster and CEO/owner of Meat Church BBQ, hails from the great state of Texas where his love of BBQ runs deep.

Healdsburg, California It’s no accident Kyle and Katina Connaughton’s Michelin 3-Star restaurant and farm, SingleThread, has maintained a spot on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants lists since its opening in...

Houston, Texas After studying at West Point and the University of Texas, Don Nguyen's life took a turn after an impulse buy at a grocery store made him the proud...

Santa Barbara, California Growing up in Southern California, Santa Barbara’s Stephanie Mutz was once on her way to becoming a marine biology professor, but when the 2008 recession came, she...

Los Gatos, California  Jason Khalipa is many things: an athlete, a champion, a philanthropist, an innovator, and, most of all, a father. His introduction to the fitness world was working...

Firle Estate, Sussex You can call Nick Weston a chef, but he kindly prefers to be called a cook with a gun, fishing rod, basket, and a whole lot of...

Cooma, Australia Mark LaBrooy is something of a Swiss Army Knife, combining love for the outdoors with a passion for cooking. A forager, free diver, spear fisherman, and hunter, he...

Melbourne, Australia

Oxford, Maine

After almost 20 years in the security and private protection field, during which he kept a close eye on some of the country's most public figures, Brooklyn native Billy Durney...

Aaron Franklin's experimentation with brisket over the last 10 years has helped him to become one of the top barbecue cooks in the country. Aaron and his lovely wife, Stacy,...

Sam Jones is the third generation to cook traditional whole hog barbecue at Skylight Inn in Ayden, North Carolina. While the Jones family helped put Carolina barbecue on the map,...

Adam Perry Lang is a chef, restaurateur, and a The New York Times best-selling cookbook author. After cooking at Le Cirque and Daniel in New York City and at Restaurant...

Lilly emerged on the barbecue scene in 1992 when he began working for the world-famous Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q restaurant in Decatur, Alabama. Recognized by The Wall Street Journal as...

Richmond, Virginia