Sébastien Boudet’s debut book The French Baker was selected as the best French cookbook at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2013. Sébastien was born in Paris as  a second-generation baker. He has been living in Sweden for a number of years now and is, among other things, the founder of the prized La Petite France on the island of Kungsholmen in Stockholm. With his wide experience within the restaurant and bakery industry, he is at the forefront of the sour dough revolution and cooking with natural ingredients.

Dag Sebastian Ahlander is a retired ambassador and successful author of books for children and young people, with Swedish history as his main topic. As a newly-fledged pensioner, he turns some ideas upside down. Some pearls of wisdom that Ahlander noted down and combined into this handbook for happy old men.

In 1992, Mia Högfeldt started at Mika’s Modelling Agency as a freelance hair stylist and makeup artist specializing in fashion and advertising. Since 2011 she has been running her own company.

HELENA BERGENDAHL has worked as an illustrator since she graduated from HDK fifteen years ago. She works mainly with newspaper illustrations but in recent years there have been more and more books, both children’s books, textbooks and reference books for adults.