La locandiera Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 - 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms.

Marianne Kastberg (f. 1960) er kogebogsforfatter og skriver om mad til magasiner. Hun er uddannet husholdningslærer, har en tillægsuddannelse i fagjournalistik og en bachelor i Latin og Litteratur. Medforfatter til God mad let at lave.