Ronit Vered is a researcher of food culture, a journalist, and author of food and travel books. Her column engages with local food traditions and has appeared weekly since 2007 in the Haaretz newspaper. Her articles have been published in numerous culinary magazines and books, in Israel and elsewhere. Ronit is a frequent lecturer and moderator of international panels on themes relating to cuisines and identity, food and politics, the Jewish kitchen, and the flourishing of Israeli and Palestinian cuisines. In the past few years, she has also been involved in culinary curation, creating artistic-culinary programs for cultural institutions (including the Tel Aviv university art gallery, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, and the Polish Cultural Institute). She teaches a course in Local cuisine culture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and acts as senior consultant and Gallery curator at “Asif: culinary institute of Israel”.