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Delilah Snell
Owner, Alta Baja Market
Delilah Snell owns Alta Baja market, and is a noted food maker/preserver/event organizer and the mastermind behind the Rancho Gordo Bean Encuentro.
Gustavo Arellano
Writer, Journalist, LA Times Columnist
Gustavo Arellano is a writer and journalist. He is a featured contributor for the Los Angeles Times, and a longtime KCRW contributor. He helms the always-incredible Great Tortilla Tournament with Good Food.
PC Kurt Iswarienko
Thom Mayne
Architect
Thom Mayne is founding partner of Morphosis, an architecture and planning firm established in 1972. Based in Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Dubai, and Shanghai with projects world-wide, Morphosis’ work represents a wide variety of scales and typologies, from civic projects, schools, and museums to commercial towers and city planning. Mayne co-founded the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and was recognized with the Pritzker Prize (2005) and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (2013).
Yassmin Sarmadi
Restaurateur and Co-Owner, Knife Pleat
Restaurateur Yassmin Sarmadi is co-owner of Knife Pleat. If the kitchen is the heart of the restaurant, then Yassmin is the soul...and you feel her warmth and elegance upon entering Knife Pleat, which feels like you are walking into her home. Knife Pleat opened its doors a few short months before the onset of the pandemic, and Yassmin not only navigated through an unprecedented time for her industry, but also led Knife Pleat in earning a coveted Michelin Star, the ultimate standard of excellence in dining worldwide. The Michelin honor is not Yassmin's first — having earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand at her former iconic Los Angeles French bistro, Church & State.
Tony Esnault
Chef and Co-Owner, Knife Pleat
Elegance of flavor and artistic execution have become Esnault's trademarks, earning him a Michelin star at his South Coast Plaza restaurant, Knife Pleat. Growing up on his grandparents' farm in the south of France, Esnault learned at an early age to appreciate seasonal ingredients and regional French cooking. Prior to Knife Pleat, Esnault, with his wife and restaurant partner, Yassmin Sarmadi, also mesmerized critics with their second LA restaurant, Spring. Foreshadowing what was to come at Knife Pleat, Spring gained attention for its use of fresh, local, organic, and seasonal ingredients to showcase the cuisine of the south of France. Today, Southern California's abundant produce provides Esnault with endless inspiration and continued reverence for fruits and vegetables.
Jennifer Ferro
Jennifer Ferro
Emma Rothenberg
Emma Rothenberg
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