Rowan Jacobsen will be a guest judge at the 2008 Maine Oyster Festival.  Rowan will be signing his books at the festival.Rowan Jacobsen writes about food, the environment, and the intersection of the two. His work has appeared in The Art of Eating, The New York Times, Saveur, NPR.org, and elsewhere. He is also the author of Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. For A Geography of Oysters, he spent a year traveling the country and sampling its oysters. He eats oysters regularly, despite the challenge of living in rural Vermont, and also organizes private oyster tastings.

Rachael Forrest will be a guest judge at the 2008 Maine Oyster Festival. Rachel Forrest is a former restaurant owner, world traveler and food and dining editor for Seacoast Media Group. Her column appears Wednesdays in Go & Do. Her restaurant review column, Dining Out, appears Thursdays in Spotlight.

 

 
Jean Kerr is the Editor-in-Chief of Taste Magazine, a food and wine magazine covering northern New England. She is also the food columnist
for Mystic Seaport Magazine.
She is also a food writer, chef and author, along with Spencer Smith,
of three cookbooks to date: Mystic Seafood, The Union Oyster House
Cookbook, and Windjammer Cooking. She is a two-time Book of the Year
Award nominee.


Fiona Robinson is the Editor-in-chief of Seafood Business Magazine, the largest seafood publication in the world.  She has been a judge at one of the top Seafood contests in the country, the Symphony of Seafood  in Anchorage, Alaska and has written for Gourmet News as well.