Randy Caparoso

 Randy Caparoso is a Denver based restaurant wine consultant and journalist who has devoted himself to a career managing, judging, speaking about and even producing wine since 1978. As a restaurant professional, Caparoso is best known as a Founding Partner of the Roy’s restaurant group, opening over twenty-five of these restaurants from Hawaii to New York between 1988 and 2001. As Roy’s former Corporate Wine Director, he was Santé magazine’s first “Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year” (1998), and was twice named Restaurant Wine’s “Wine Marketer of the Year (1993 & 1999).

Carol Penn-Romine  

Los Angeles-based Carol Penn-Romine grew up on a farm in Tennessee, where she developed an early understanding of and appreciation for livestock as fellow inhabitants of the farm-and ultimately as dinner.

After working as a journalist and editor for a number of years, she decided to focus her writing on food, and to that end, earned a degree from the California School of Culinary Arts. She is particularly interested in the social and cultural aspects of food and how its production, preparation and enjoyment bring people together.

Chef Jos Wellman (aka Tallyrand)

Born in the UK and initially raised in my father’s hometown in Wales, I consider myself a Welshman through and through. Although, with my father in both the Royal and Merchant Navies and later in the Police force we travelled quite a lot as a child, which seems to have given me itchy feet for the rest of my life and a passion for travel as you will see. I guess you could say I am now a displaced Welshman, an adopted Kiwi and a citizen of the world.