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Cate O’Malley
For as long as I can remember, I have loved writing and yearned to be a freelance journalist when I grew up. When I moved out on my own for the first time, I discovered a second passion … cooking. Now, many years later, I still have a love for both and started my site, Sweetnicks, in an effort to combine them. I have a slight, ahem, obsession with cookbooks, food/cooking magazines, and, well, anything related to food. Joining the food blogging community, it’s great to be among others who get the obsession. 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.

Solange Berchemin
Right from the beginning, I faced a dichotomous choice: born in Lyon, the French capital of gastronomy, my dad is an excellent cook; on the other end my mum could manage to burn boiling water.I love words but as we do all I needed to work. So I started as a librarian who made strange cooking experiments on her friends…some never recovered and I gained local fame.

I moved to London (England), a fusion place par excellence, kept the cooking passion going and have found an happy medium. Writing on my blog: pebble soup and articles for magazines.

Kristen Doyle
I reside with my husband and three small children in a suburb of Kansas City. In addition to being a wife and mother, I work part-time from home as a recruiter for the staffing industry, as well as work as a freelance writer for a local magazine. Besides my family, my passions include cooking, entertaining, photography, reading, travel and shopping.I grew up in a house where family dinner was a priority. We sat around the table almost every evening as a family and ate a nice meal together. With varying hectic schedules this wasn’t always convenient, but it is something that my parents felt was important. Those values are ones I am striving to implement in my own home. I am a firm believer that having families sit down at night to eat dinner together can help to solve a lot of the problems in the world today. Families that eat, play and pray together, stay together.

I have always loved to cook, but I have not always been good at it. There were many times when I was younger that I’d make cookies and forget to add the dry ingredients. My family still teases me to this day about the number of times I caught our kitchen stove on fire. I used the smoke alarm as my signal that things were done instead of the timer. I’ve come a long way…that’s for sure!

In addition to writing for The Well Fed Network, I maintain two blogs… Dine and Dish, where I chronicle my adventures in cooking and entertaining and Dishing it Up Family Style, where I document how our family is keeping us entertained.

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.

Colleen Lindesay
Colleen lives, writes and eats in San Francisco, where she publishes Delights and Prejudices and contributes to Wishbone Clover. In her spare time, she consults on communications.

Madeline Miller
I began cooking out of pure desperation. I simply could not eat fast food any more. And, I was getting married and cooking seemed like something a grown up should know how to do. The first recipe I ever tried that did not involve microwaving for five minutes on high or opening Styrofoam boxes was by Rachael Ray. I have been cooking her recipes ever since, as my personal blog Everything Rachael Ray evidences.

Combine my love of cooking with my love of writing and you end up reading my Bio on Paper Palate.