About Kathy
A passionate writer, traveler, and cook, Kathy Hunt has made innumerable journeys to Europe, Central America, Asia and North Africa, sampling the cuisines and collecting stories and recipes as she roamed. When not on the road, she works as a freelance writer and photographer. Her nationally syndicated writings on food and travel appear in over 40 newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Baltimore Sun. She also writes for such magazines as VegNews, Chester County Town and Country Living, Ed Hitzel’s Restaurant Magazine and BackHome.
Additionally, Kathy has contributed entries to the two-volume culinary encyclopedia Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Superbowl (Greenwood, 2008). She likewise has acted as a recipe tester, most notably for Francine Segan’s 2007 IACP and James Beard Award nominee The Opera Lover’s Cookbook. She also creates and tests her own published recipes and is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. A 2001 graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she divides her time between an 1801 farmhouse on the outskirts of Philadelphia and a pre-war apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Whether in New York or suburban Philly, Kathy spends her free time shooting digital as well as 35mm photographs, reading classic and literary fiction, visiting art museums, and playing tennis. It goes without saying that she loves to travel, cook, write and dine and hang out with husband Sean and other friends. One of her greatest pleasures, though, is tending to her SPCA Shepherd-Husky Max and trio of rescued, stray, black cats, Scooty, Clive and Owen, the undisputed “Kitchen Kat.”
