Chef Todd Richards is the culinary director of Jackmont Hospitality where he has overseen the development of chef-driven restaurant concepts such as One Flew South and Chicken+Beer in airports from LAX to Hartsfield-Atlanta. His 2019 book
Soul was an IACP Cookbook Award winner. He gained the attention of critics and foodies alike when he helmed the kitchens at The Shed at Glenwood, the Pig and the Pearl, Rolling Bones Barbecue, White Oak Kitchen and Cocktails, the Four Seasons Hotel, the Ritz-Carlton, and the Oakroom at the Seelbach Hotel, which garnered the prestigious AAA 5 Diamond Award for restaurant excellence during his tenure. A native of Chicago, he has called Atlanta home since the early 1990s.
Amy Paige Condon has co-written three bestselling cookbooks: The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, Wiley’s Championship BBQ, and Bress ‘n’ Nyam: Gullah-Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-generation Farmer. She also is the author of the biography A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs, about one of the most influential newspaper editors of the twentieth century that almost no one has heard of. Amy founded the Refinery Writing Studio in 2017 to help aspiring and establish writers develop their storytelling skills. She lives in Savannah, Georgia with her husband, three rescue dogs, and a pig named Gus.