Bios
Cate O’Malley (Editor)
In addition to writing for the various Well Fed sites, I combined my cookbook obsession and my love for the written word to form my own site, Sweetnicks. My site’s name comes from my 6-year-old son, Nicholas, who loves to help me in the kitchen almost as much as he loves Dora, Spiderman and his girlfriend.
Chris Arpante
Chris Arpante is a middle school administrator in metro Atlanta, Georgia. While she truly enjoys trying to make a difference with her at-risk teens, her blog, Mele Cotte, is a way to bring out her love for food. As she continues on her personal culinary journey, she would welcome the chance to leave my public education heels in the main office and slip into a pair a Dansko clogs behind her own bakery display case. But, until then she will continue with her blogging, expanding her experiences on the Well Fed Network.
Casey Kelly Barton
Casey gardens, keeps chickens and tries to live green in Austin, Texas. In addition to writing for the Well Fed Network, she blogs and podcasts at Redneck Mother.
Tracy DeBlois
Tracy DeBlois loves to eat, cook, and read and write about food. Although not currently a food service professional, she worked for a catering company while in college, selling services, coordinating events, and taking part in the cooking. She has helped cook for groups from five to five thousand, serving everything from spit roasted whole pig to bar-b-que sandwiches. She now lives with her husband and four children a short ferry ride from Seattle, WA. Tracy maintains her own blog at The Modern Apron, where she shares her food and cooking experiences. She has an impressive (and, to her husband’s dismay, ever-growing) cookbook collection, a passion for food magazines that verges on obsessive, and a growing interest in the food landscape in America and its impact on society. Tracy can usually be found in the kitchen or, when waiting for something in the oven, in front of the fire with a book and a glass of wine.Stacy Hunt
Stacy started her professional career as a chef and currently works as a writer, communications and business consultant to the sustainable and green building industry. Stacy’s expertise in natural resource conservation and food collide at Grower’s and Grocers to focus on sustainable, natural living.
Faith Kramer
Faith Kramer finds herself reading about food sometimes even more often than cooking it. “After all,” she says “it’s hard to grill chicken in bed.” In addition to the many American food magazines she reads, Faith also enjoys “translating” into American some of the best food magazines of England and Australia. She’s been even known to try recipes from Spanish, Mexican and French food magazines. The French ones are particularly challenging since she doesn’t know any French. Good thing the language of food is universal. When she is not reading about cooking food, she is writing about it in her blog, Blog Appetit, and as a contributor to other Well Fed Network sites, including Sugar Savvy.Madeline Miller
I was a water lawyer in a former life (okay, maybe it was just a couple years ago). Through that job, I was able to travel up and down the great State of California and meet not only with the people who run the state’s water system, but also with the farmers who used the water provided. I gained a great respect for the amount of work and devotion required to get produce from the field to the grocery store. Oh, and I also love to write, so here I am in the blogosphere, writing away about anything and everything that inspires me, including writing for another Well Fed Network blog, Paper Palate, and my own personal blog, Everything Rachael Ray.
