Robert MeyerDan Koeppel is a senior staff writer at The New York Times's Wirecutter. He has written for national publications including Wired, Outside, National Geographic, and The Atlantic and won a James Beard Award for his fod writing. He is the author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. His writing has been anthologized three times in the Best American series.

Robert Meyer, M.D. has been an emergency room doctor for over twenty-five years, spending most of his career at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, which sees more urgent cases than any other medical facility in the eastern United States. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He lives in Hartsdale, New York, with his wife, Janet. Read More Read Less