Diane Weintraub Pohl is a food writer, personal chef, and graduate of NYC's Institute of Culinary Education. She has written for national publications including The New York Times,, and is a Contribu...

Ray Cooney, a husband and proud father of three, is a retired New York City firefighter. While attempting to take a second floor window, back in November 2003, a back draft knocked him from his ladder...

Chef Phil Stannard grew up in a small shoreline town in Connecticut. From an early age he would help his father in the family’s vegetable garden and go fishing with his grandfather in long island so...