Cookbook Presenters

Details on Cookbook Luncheons will be announced in the weeks ahead.



Ham El-Waylly

Photo Credit: Sohla El-Waylly

Ham El-Waylly is a chef, restaurant consultant, recipe developer, and video creator based in New York City. You may know him from his acclaimed Brooklyn restaurant, Strange Delight, or as a longtime contributor to NYT Cooking, where he is also one half of the YouTube sensation, Mystery Menu. He lives in the East Village with his wife (Sohla), toddler, shiba inu, English bulldog, and wild alley cat.


Greta Podleski

Greta Podleski is the author of five #1 national bestselling cookbooks, including her smash hit Yum & Yummer, which won the Taste Canada Awards Gold in 2017. Together with her sister Janet, Greta co-authored four blockbuster bestselling cookbooks: Looneyspoons; Crazy Plates; Eat, Shrink & Be Merry; and The Looneyspoons Collection, with combined sales of over two million copies. Her incredible self-publishing success story and outrageously delicious healthy recipes have been featured on national TV and radio shows and in major media outlets across Canada and the United States. Greta lives on Lake Huron.