Molly O’Neill
Molly is the founder of the One Big Table initiative and the author of One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking. Before embarking on her American odyssey, she was a reporter at The New York Times and the food columnist for The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of four cookbooks, including the bestselling New York Cookbook, and of a memoir, Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball.
Molly edited the Library of America’s American Food Writing and was the host of the PBS series Great Food. In 1995, she was the first food writer to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and after winning multiple James Beard Awards she was given the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. Molly teaches creative writing and lectures frequently on American cooks, characters, and cooking. She can be reached at Molly@OneBigtable.com.
Dan Huntley
A son of South Carolina, Dan has been smoking pigs and “picking” them since he was a teenager. He developed an interest in regional cuisines while working as a commercial fisherman in the Caribbean and went on to work as a reporter and a columnist for The Charlotte Observer for twenty-four years. As a recipient of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, he traveled and cooked in Buenos Aires, Istanbul, and the Greek Peloponnese, which helped him realize that Carolina pig pickings are part of a universal food tradition.
Dan developed his own barbecue sauce, Carolina Pig Pucker, and is the co-author of the book Extreme Barbecue. In 2009, he helped to reopen a venerable pit-barbecue restaurant in South Carolina called Smoke. Dan has worked for humanitarian-relief missions in Nicaragua and Honduras, and has won several national writing awards for investigative reporting, short fiction, and poetry. He is the founder of Outdoor Feasts, a catering company in York, South Carolina; lectures frequently on Southern food traditions; and hosts legal moonshine tastings. Dan can be reached at danthepigman@mac.com.
