Kate McDonough

Photograph (c) Mark Dichter

About The Author

Kate McDonough is a New York business executive who, tired of restaurant and takeout food during years of long workweeks and frequent business trips, resolved to find a place for cooking in her hectic schedule. Cooking soon became her passions, and after a sabbatical at New York’s French Culinary Institute, she launched TheCityCook.com. A passionate urbanist, McDonough has a master’s degree in city planning, is a member of one of New York’s prestigious community boards, and lives and cooks in Manhattan with her husband, Mark Dichter.

Books by Kate McDonough

The City Cook

Big City, Small Kitchen. Limitless Ingredients, No Time. More than 90 recipes so delicious you'll want to toss your takeout menus

By Kate McDonough
The City Cook is an elegantly simple and eminently practical guide to fitting great cooking into a busy life and a small kitchen, including more than 90 recipes from Kate McDonough, editor and founder of TheCityCook.com.

Taking you from fishmonger to cheese merchant to green...
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