David Hancock is one of Northern Australia's leading photojournalists.  He has worked as a writer for 35 years and a photographer for more than 25.  He was named Australian Geographic photographer of the year in 2005 for an article he photographed and wrote about the northern wet season.

Walkabout Chefs is David's third book. He wrote and photographed The Top End, published by Australian Geographic and self-published, with his graphic designer partner Ginette Kenney, A Vision Fulfilled, a book about the construction of the Alice Springs to Darwin railway. The books have sold over 20,000 copies and are still going strong.

David's experience in newspapers – he worked for The Australian for more than ten years and Fairfax's The Age and Sydney Morning Herald for 15 years  – prepared him well for dealing with people in diverse situations and capturing spontaneous images of Australian life.

In he 20 years that he and his partner have lived in the Northern Territory, David has worked for variety of corporate, editorial and overseas clients. His company, SkyScans Australia, widely circulates articles and photographs about outback life, tourism, aboriginal culture and people working with exotic wildlife, throughout Europe.

A chef for nearly 40 years, Steve Sunk is Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Cookery at Charles Darwin University, in Darwin.

Steve doesn't just contain himself to the lecture halls and kitchens of the university but takes his passion for cookery into the far-flung communities of northern and central Australia. Steve designed and implemented the Back to Basics program, the most popular course taught in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. The course aims to improve nutrition, health, literacy and numeracy among Aboriginal students by teaching recipes that combine the best of western foods, with bush tucker.

Steve has been operating his Back to Basics course for ten years and, in 2006, was named the Territory's Top Trainer by the Northern Land Council, one of Australia's peak boriginal bodies.

Many of the recipes in Walkabout Chefs are a collaboration between Steve and his indigenous students. Steve has dedicated the book to the many Aboriginal women who work tirelessly to improve life for their children and family on remote communities.

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From the pristine waters of Arnhem Land to the spinnifex deserts of Central Australia, the larder is always full for Aboriginal Australians.