Women's History Month: Cooking from the Hip and the Heart

Cat Cora

Cat Cora, a Food Network and Iron Chef star, has cooking in her roots, so to speak, because her grandfather and uncle had restaurants in Mississippi. Chef Cora’s training at the Culinary Institute of America and under chefs in the United States and France, including Roger Vergé and Georges Blanc, prepared her well. She was able to cook for and impress Chef Jacques Pépin, and she also became the first female Iron Chef on the Food Network show, Iron Chef America. (Hamilton, pp. 87-93)

The library has materials by or about Chef Cat Cora, and they are listed below for you. You may borrow any of the following from the Sullivan Lexington Library:

• Cat Cora’s Kitchen: Favorite Meals for Family and Friends by Cat Cora; 641.5949 C787c 
• Chef’s Story: 27 Chefs Talk about What Got them into the Kitchen edited by Dorothy Hamilton and Patric Kuh; 641.5092 C515c
• Chef’s Story: Cat Cora; DVD 641.5092 C515cat
• Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness by Cat Cora; 641.092 C787c
• Cooking from the Hip: Fast, Easy, Phenomenal Meals by Cat Cora; 641.5973 C787c

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Sources:

Cora, C. (2015). Cooking as Fast as I Can. New York: Scribner.

Hamilton, D. and Kuh, P., eds. (2007). Chef’s Story: 27 Chefs Talk about What Got Them into the Kitchen. New York: Harper Perennial. Pp. 87-95

Check out this blog post about a book that features other female chefs.