Leanne Kitchen is a chef, writer and photographer with a long career in food media. Leanne spent seven years working as a food and features editor for prestigious food and travel magazines Travel and Leisure, Vogue Entertaining and Travel, Australian Gourmet Travel, and over a decade freelancing for other top Australian and New Zealand publications. Her articles, recipes and photographs have appeared in Belle, Home Beautiful, Qantas, Kia Ora, Wine Selector, Masterchef magazine and SBS Feast , and she regularly contributes online content for www.smartmouthonline.com. In addition, Leanne has worked with chefs and authors on countless cookbooks, as food editor, recipe writer and, most recently, as co-author of The Real Food of China . Leanne has harboured a deep love for, and fascination with, South East Asia for as long as she can remember and has been travelling to the region regularly, writing travel articles and photographing, for 15 years. Antony Suvalko's working background demonstrates his passion for food.

Restaurants run in his family's veins, and it was only natural that he followed a similar path. Antony has owned and operated a successful catering company and worked with Illy Cafe to develop their Pacific market. Having embraced digital media Antony launched his own website, www.foodie.co.nz in 2009 to great success, followed by www.smartmouthonline.com, which produces smartphone apps on food destinations.

Antony has enormous affection for South East Asian cuisine and culture, as well as recently co-authoring The Real Food of China with Leanne.