Jean Kerr is a food writer and editor who has been writing articles and columns about food since the 1980s. She has been food editor for Portsmouth Magazine and a regular contributor to Accent magazine. She is currently the editor of Taste of the Seacoast, a food and wine magazine covering northern New England.Spencer Smith is a publishing executive based in Maine. He has been editor of Fodor's Seaside America and The Yachtsman's Winterbook and a board member of The National Maritime Historical Society and has worked on book publishing projects for South Street Seaport Museum and Mystic Seaport.