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Paola Westbeek is a journalist
with a focus on French
food, wine, and travel.
From meeting the country's
top chefs and dedicated
producers to reviewing
restaurants and tasting her
way through the many wine
regions, her work has led her
to every delicious corner of
the French hexagon, including
the Dordogne for this issue
(p. 24). She is a regular
contributor to FRANCE
Magazine, En Route, and French
Property News.
NYC-based photographer
and director Matt Dutile
is on a mission to traverse
the globe, from the sun-
soaked vineyards of France
to the lemur-filled jungles
of Madagascar. He's
always chasing the latest
and greatest restaurants,
hotels, and adventures in
the Hudson Valley (p. 44).
You'll find his images on
the pages of Dwell, Conde
Nast Traveler, DestinAsian,
and many more.
Miami-based food-travel
writer, poet, and critic Jen
Karetnick is the author/co-
author of 20 books, including
four cookbooks and four
guidebooks. She has been
addicted to cheese since she
started working in a cheese
shop when she was 16.
For this issue she explores
Kojin, a hidden Miami
restaurant-within-a-restaurant
(p. 35). Her work appears
widely in The Atlantic, NPR,
The Counter, HuffPost, The
Miami Herald, and elsewhere.
Margarita Gokun Silver
is a writer and an artist
based in Madrid, Spain.
Cheese shops are the first
shops she searches out
when traveling and she
hasn't yet tried a cheese
she hasn't liked. For this
issue, she goes to Naxos,
Greece—one of her favorite
Greek islands—to fry some
saganaki and to learn
about Cyclops' role in
cheesemaking (p. 58).
