After nine years of working as an event planner and in advertising sales at Vogue, Glamour, and People magazines, Kate decided to seriously pursue her passion for food by attending the California Culinary Academy and Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco. She has since grown her catering business to provide services ranging from casual dinner parties for 8 to cocktail and hors d’oeuvre soirees for 400. Kate lives near San Francisco with her husband and twin girls.