SONOKO SAKAI was born in New York and raised by Japanese parents. She lived in many places as a child, including San Francisco, Kamakura, Mexico City, and Tokyo. She is the author of three books, Rice Craft (Chronicle, 2016), The Poetical Pursuit of Food (Potter, 1986, now OP), and Japanese Home Cooking (Shambhala, 2019). She has worked as a recipe developer, producer, creative director, cooking teacher, and lecturer. She is also a grain activist. Sonoko currently lives in Los Angeles and Tehachapi, California, with her sculptor husband, Katsuhisa Sakai. Their son, Sakae, and daughter-in-law, Binah, live in Seattle, and their son, Tyler, daughter-in-law, Emmalina, and their children, Masa and Mai, live in London. Her website is www.

sonokosakai.com, and she has almost 40k followers on Instagram @sonokosakai. KEIKO BRODEUR began making illustrated paper goods under the name Small Adventure in 2009 in order to explore being a self-taught illustrator after having graduated with a graphic design degree and working in a few different fields. She soon fell in love with creating illustrations for greeting cards and other products for her own small business. After several years of printing and shipping all her orders, both retail and wholesale, from home, she finally found a new home for her business in 2015 and moved into a lovely studio space in Los Angeles where all product is packed and shipped with the help of friends.