Emily Hagen

Emily comes to us with years of experience in photography and marketing in the hospitality and food world. She toured as a satellite crew member on our 2016 tour, both serving the table and photographing the events. Recently, she served as Director of Marketing at Island Creek Oysters before joining the Outstanding in the Field team in 2021 as the Director of Brand & Creative Marketing.

Emily Angle

After honing her event skills in the Panamanian jungle and tasting her way through Central America, Emily joined the Outstanding in the Field crew in Mexico in 2017 and has been working with us ever since! In 2018 she joined us on the road as our Tour Manager and now she’s planning our public tour events and working behind the scenes to ensure we have everything we need to keep this show on the road.

Jim Denevan

Jim created Outstanding in the Field in 1999, seeking to connect people in a celebration of food and farmer. Jim has also been a professional chef, model, surfer and artist, creating stunning sand drawings on a massive scale. Today, Jim’s art commissions take him around the world, and he in turn takes us to ever more exotic farm dinner locations. Read more about Jim at www.jimdenevan.com.