CONTRIBUTORS
Adrian Miller
Adrian is a food writer and recovering attorney who lives in Denver, Colorado. He served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton with his Initiative for One America – the rst free-standing o¤ce in the White House to address issues of racial, religious and ethnic reconciliation. Adrian’s rst book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time won the James Beard Foundation Award for Scholarship and Reference in 2014. His most recent book, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, was published in 2021 and won the 2022 James Beard Award for the same category. Adrian is featured in the Netix series High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America.
Alice Feiring
A journalist and essayist, Alice is a recipient of a coveted James Beard Award for wine journalism, among many other awards. A veteran writer for newspapers and magazines, she has also appeared frequently on public radio and lectures worldwide mostly about natural wine. Author of 6 books, her most recent which landed on almost every best wine book list of 2022 is To Fall in Love, Drink This. Alice lives in New York and publishes the authoritative natural wine newsletter, The Feiring Line.
Amrita Amesur
Amrita is a corporate lawyer who is deeply passionate about food. She has spent the last year dedicatedly studying and documenting all of her family’s food experiences, while learning to develop her own voice as a cook and a writer. Her favourite comfort food is ghee idli podi and her go-to restaurant that never disappoints is Café Madras in Bombay.
Annie Zaleski
Annie is an award-winning author, journalist and editor with proles, interviews, and criticism in a variety of publications including Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Guardian, Salon, Time, and Billboard. She contributed liner notes to the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s Out of Time and Game Theory’s 2020 collection Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript and wrote Duran Duran’s essay for their 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Annie has been a radio commentator on various music and pop culture topics and also a talking head in the 2005 movie Punk’s Not Dead and in a 2014 Ovation TV special on the band Blondie.
Robin Kick MW
Originally from the Chicago area, Robin currently lives in Lugano, Switzerland where she works as a freelance buying/export consultant, wine judge, educator and journalist. Robin has held a number of positions including Wine Auction Specialist for Christie’s in Beverly Hills, California and Fine Wine Buyer for Goedhuis & Co., a London-based wine merchant. While in London, she studied at the Institute of Masters of Wine, graduating in 2014. When she is not in Switzerland, she spends much of her time in the Côte d’Or or travelling and tasting through many of Italy’s wine regions.