Kathy Fang is the daughter of House of Nanking founders Peter and Lily Fang, who opened the restaurant in 1988. It has since become a San Francisco institution, earning a legacy business designation in 2020. Kathy went to culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu after growing up in restaurants for her entire life, and later opened Fang with her father, which combines their Chinese heritage and the global cuisines that Kathy sampled from traveling around the world. Kathy is also a two-time Chopped champion, and she and Peter have starred in the Food Network show Chef Dynasty: House of Fang. Emily Timberlake is a writer based in Oakland, California. As a former senior editor at Ten Speed Press, she acquired and edited more than 65 books, including many James Beard and IACP Award winners. She is the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Foodheim with Eric Wareheim, the James Beard-nominated and IACP-winning Cure with Neal Bodenheimer, and Sundays with Sophie as well as the forthcoming Bobby Flay: Chapter One with Bobby Flay. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Taste, Punch, and more.