Amber Benham is a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and intern at Saveur magazine.  Emerging from the wheat fields of Kansas, Benham fled the Midwest at the age of 21 and came to New York to find her foodie niche.  She fell in love with the city, the restaurants and her students in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.  After teaching Spanish there for 3 years, she packed up her things and moved to Malaga, Spain.  For two years she basked in the sun of the Costa del Sol and tried to master Andalucian cooking, but teaching English to get by wasn’t enough of a challenge.  So now she’s back in the Big Apple, hoping to eat, cook and write about it in perfect AP style.

Jessica Simeone is a reporter for The New York Post and in her final semester at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.  Always a fan of trying tasting new cuisines, she has traveled as Far East as China sampling the local delicacies along the way- the fish and chips in London, the Sheppard’s pie in Ireland, the escargot in Paris, the fondue in Zurich, some pasta in Venice, a hot pot in Beijing and the roasted lamb in Inner Mongolia.