About Kate

When you’re the only kid at the bus stop asking the other kids what they’re having for dinner, it’s pretty clear you have food on the brain.

That kid was me. My interest in food and writing has led me from cooking on the line at restaurants such as Radius in Boston, Terra in St. Helena, California, and A16 in San Francisco, to a master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. I have been writing about food professionally since 2005.

These worlds came together in  A16 Food + Wine. It won both the IACP Julia Child First Book award and the 2009 IACP Cookbook of the Year award. Since then, I have pursued more cookbook projects. I also spent four years as an editor for Restaurants & Institutions. My work has appeared in Chicago Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Fodor’s, Say Cheese, and Time Out Chicago. As a volunteer, I wrote Eat the World, a cookbook for kids, for Chicago’s Common Threads organization.

Want to get in touch? Drop me a note at kaleahy (at) gmail (dot) com.

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