Kathy Hester is the founder of the blog Healthy Slow Cooking (healthyslowcooking.com) and author of The Vegan Slow Cooker, Vegan Slow Cooking for One or Two, Oatrageous Oatmeals, The Great Vegan Bean Book, The Easy Vegan Cookbook, and The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for Your Instant Pot. She writes for various online health and cooking websites, including Bright Hub (brighthub.com), Divine Caroline (divinecaroline.com), Everything Mom (everythingmom.com), and The Healthy Hostess (thehealthyhostess.com). She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Renée Comet is a nationally recognized commercial photographer specializing in food and still life photography for advertising, packaging, digital content, cookbooks, and recipe videos. She shoots food, products, and lifestyle subjects with a distinctly clean, elegant style. Exquisite lighting technique, minimalist propping, and refreshingly uncomplicated backgrounds combine to create simple, sophisticated images that display and enhance natural beauty.