- Marcia Muller
- Armistead Maupin
- Katherine Hall Page
- Bill Pronzini
- Ram Charan
- Jacques Pépin
- Ruth Reichl
- Culinary Institute of America
- Jane Stern
- Michael Stern
- Laurel Mellin
- Robert K. Cooper
- Junior League San Francisco
- André Soltner
- Alain Sailhac
- John Newman
- Linda Hetzer
- George R. Walther
- Paul Begala
- Alan Tonelson