Dan Gertsacov, Roving Correspondent
Dan is on a life quest to learn 50 cuisines from around the globe and to share those adventures with the AmazingRibs.com audience. Over the past 20 years, Dan has attended 30 cooking schools in 20 countries and the travels continue! When not on the road, he serves as President of Big Green Egg.
Robert F. Moss, AmazingRibs.com Author And BBQ Historian
Robert F. Moss is a highly respected authority on food, drink, and culinary history. Working from his home base in Charleston, South Carolina, he is the founder and publisher of The Southeastern Dispatch, the Contributing Barbecue Editor for Southern Living and a frequent contributor to publications including Serious Eats, Saveur, Early American Life, Garden & Gun, The Local Palate, and the Charleston City Paper.
Robert F. Moss, Barbeculture Writer
Robert Moss is a highly respected authority on food, drink, and travel with a Ph.D in English. Working from his home base in Charleston, South Carolina, he is the founder and publisher of The Southeastern Dispatch, was a Contributing Barbecue Editor for Southern Living and a frequent contributor to publications including Serious Eats, Saveur, Early American Life, Garden & Gun, The Local Palate, and the Charleston City Paper.
Christopher Kimball, AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor
Christopher Kimball is the founder of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street located at 177 Milk Street in Boston and an AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor. Milk Street publishes a bimonthly advertising-free magazine, a radio show broadcast on over 230 public stations (plus a podcast), a public television show, and cooking classes, both live and virtual. Milk Street also curates their own online store stocked with hard […]
Adrian Davila, AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor
Adrian Davila is the award-winning third-generation pitmaster of Davila’s BBQ in Seguin, Texas and is an AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor.
Malcom Reed, Pitmaster Supreme
Malcom Reed is one of the most respected men in barbecue and his many videos make him a genuine YouTube Star. His love for BBQ inspired him to build his website, his YouTube channel, and a podcast. We don’t know how, but he still finds time to compete on the BBQ circuit with his team, Killer Hogs.
Malcom Reed, AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor
Malcom Reed is one of the most respected men in barbecue and his many videos make him a genuine YouTube Star. He is also an AmazingRibs.com Content Contributor.
Professor Greg Blonder, AmazingRibs.com Scientific Advisor
Professor Greg Blonder is an amazing polymath and the AmazingRibs.com resident science advisor and mythbuster. He was co-author of our first book, “Meathead, The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling”. A Professor of Product Design and Engineering at Boston University, he has a physics BS from MIT and a physics PhD from Harvard. He has served […]
Chef Ryan Udvett, Recipe Tester
Chef Ryan Udvett is a classically trained chef from Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago and serves as an official recipe tester for AmazingRibs.com. Chef Udvett has managed several restaurant kitchens and is currently the Product Development (R&D) Manager at CBQ, LLC a subsidiary of Carl Buddig and Company.
Paul Sidoriak, Griddling Expert
Paul Sidoriak’s official title with AmazingRibs.com is Fire Starter because he makes things happen in his role as Director of Relationships. Sidoriak is also the author of Exclusively Kamado and The Flippin’ Awesome Backyard Griddle Cookbook and has previously served as a BBQ consultant to several major brands.
Greg Rempe, Pitcaster
Known around the world for his two hour broadcast, the BBQ Central Show, Greg Rempe also produces a 30 minute weekly podcast for AmazingRibs.com Pitmaster Club members called The Pitcast. Each week he offers the latest news from the food and barbecue world. He also does occasional product reviews for AmazingRibs.com.
Bill McGrath, Thermometer Tester
Bill McGrath is AmazingRibs.com’s Thermometer Maven. He has sophisticated equipment, an electrical engineering degree from Cornell University, and an MBA (almost) from UC Berkeley. Despite being mostly retired, he is still responsible for developing and updating all of ExxonMobil’s electricians’ training modules.
Nate Maliwacki, Video Recipes
Nate Maliwacki serves as a content creator for AmazingRibs.com, filming, editing, and producing instructional recipe videos for the site and for his own YouTube channel, White Thunder BBQ. His goal is to teach and inspire viewers to cook with live fire and to have fun while doing so.
Jim Maivald, Former SVP And Chief Technology Officer
Jim Maivald was head of our technical team for 15 years until he died in November 2023. He was an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with over 30 years of experience working with graphic design. He has written 10 books and hundreds of articles on graphic design and electronic publishing.
Dr. Antonio “The Meat Geek” Mata, Meat Scientist
A meat scientist known as “The Meat Geek”, Dr. Antonio Mata, PhD (10/7/50 – 1/14/22) was a contributor to AmazingRibs.com and a Consulting Technical Coordinator to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Mata discovered the Petite Tender and Las Vegas Strip Steak as well as being involved in the discovery of the flatiron steak.