Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are two of America's most beloved chefs. The duo has been business partners for over 20 years, beginning with the opening of City Cafe on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles in 1981. Currently they are hands-on owner-operators of the popular and critically acclaimed Border Grill restaurants in Santa Monica and Las Vegas, serving Modern Mexican food in an urban cantina setting. The pair also own and operate Ciudad restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles, featuring the bold and seductive flavors of the Latin world. Natural teachers, the partners are prolific in many media. They are authors of five cookbooks, including Cooking with Too Hot Tamales, Mesa Mexicana, and City Cuisine. They are television veterans, appearing on 396 episodes of the popular Too Hot Tamalesand Tamales World Tourprograms on Food Network.

And they have been on the radio dial since 1996, currently hosting a 2-hour Sunday morning talk show on KFI 640 AM in Los Angeles.

In addition, Border Grill and Ciudad dishes "starred" in the 2001 Samuel Goldwyn feature film, Tortilla Soup.

Mary Sue and Susan are also the creators of the Border Girlsbrand of fresh prepared foods at Whole Foods Markets, as well as a line of signature pepper mills manufactured by Vic Firth.

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