Leda Meredith is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants. She is a local foods activist and currently eating foods that are grown within 250 miles of her home in Brooklyn.

 

Photo By Ricky Restiano

 

Viviane Bauquet Farre is a chef, food writer and teacher. She offers intimate, hands-on seasonal cooking classes in her beautiful home on the Hudson River just north of NYC. A frequent contributor to -- and subject of -- articles in the press, Viviane also hosts a private dinner and wine club, and offers monthly recipes and videos on her beautiful website, foodandstyle.com.