Andreas Viestad is a food writer, tv chef, restaurateur, and activist. He is the longtime host of New Scandinavian Cooking airing on Public Television in the US and in more than 50 countries, a former columnist of The Washington Post, and a founder of Geitmyra Culinary Center for Children in Norway. He is the author of 14 cookbooks in Norwegian, and two cookbooks for the US marked, Kitchen of Light and Where Flavor was Born. When he is not traveling, he shares his time between his farm in Oslo and a farm just outside Cape Town, South Africa.