Catherine Newman is the author of the award-winning bestseller How to Be a Person, now published in multiple languages, and as a special PJ Library edition, How to Be a Mensch, and two parenting memoirs: Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness, as well as a middle-grade novel, One Mixed-Up Night. She's also the co-author of Stitch Camp. Newman is the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine…

Jake Levin is the author of Smokehouse Handbook. A butcher and charcuterie expert who trained at Fleisher’s Meat in Kingston, New York, he has worked in whole-animal butcher shops including The Meat Market in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Eli’s Manhattan in New York City. He currently produces cured meats at…