Dana McCauley

Dana McCauley (born July 7, 1966, in Newmarket, Ontario) is a Canadian chef, food writer, food trend tracker, spokesperson, and international corporate food consultant. Dana is the former food editor for ''Gardening Life'', ''Homemakers'', and ''Style at Home'' magazines. She was President of Dana McCauley & Associates Ltd., a company based in Maple, Ontario, that provided services to the food industry, including grocery product development, recipe writing, research, food writing, and food trend tracking and analysis. It was sold to Amy Snider/Whitson, who renamed it The Test Kitchen Incorporated.

Dana was also worked as the executive chef for DineWise, an online gourmet food company.

At the same time, McCauley took a job with Janes Family Foods as their culinary director. In addition, she was cast as an on-air judge on the Food Network Canada original reality series called ''Recipe to Riches, Tony Champman and Galen Weston, Jr. The show was created by Temple Street Productions
and aired starting October 2011 on Food Network Canada and Global TV.

She was the founding executive director for Food Starter (now called District Kitchen), a food business incubator and accelerator created by the City of Toronto. It is now operated by Arlene Dickinson's District Ventures. Before leaving Food Starter, Dana led it to win the Premier's Award for Innovation. In the same year that she was awarded the Women's Executive Network's Top 100 award.

As of 2019, Dana is the Director of New Venture Creation at the University of Guelph where she helps researchers to create start-up companies based on their lab work.

Since 2017, she has been featured in Canadian media many times, including in the Globe and Mail, National Post and EatNorth as well as dozens of trade magazines and podcasts, such as The Feast, and a Sirius XM show. In 2017 she was recognized as a change agent when she received the WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women award in the trailblazers and trendsetter category.

Bibliography

Dana has written four cookbooks: ''Last Dinner on the Titanic'', ''Noodles Express: Fast and Easy Recipes in 15 to 45 Minutes'', ''Dana's Top Ten Table,'' and ''Pantry Raid: Out of the Cupboard Cooking''. She has also collaborated on ''In the Kennedy Style'' with US etiquette icon Letitia Baldrige, Kennedy Administration White House chef René Verdon and ''Legendary Brides'', also with Baldridge.

Personal

Dana McCauley is married to Toronto chef and restaurateur Martin Kouprie of the restaurant Pangaea. Their son Oliver Kouprie is a mechanic.

Media career

She was a featured presenter at Food In Motion and a featured guest speaker at both the Food & Beverage Marketing Conference in Toronto and the Designing and Marketing Food to Boomers Conference hosted by the Guelph Food and Technology Centre. During the late 1990s to the 2010s, Dana addressed audiences at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as at events held in cities from Honolulu to New York City. She has made many television appearances on shows such as CNN, Fox News, The Today Show, Breakfast Television, Canada AM, and The Leeza Gibbons Show. Print journalists from publications such as ''The National Post'', the Canadian Press wire service, ''People'' magazine, '' Newsweek'', and '' USA Today'' have interviewed Dana about her business and her books.

Dana is also the expert food trend guest on Canada AM.

Books

*1997 ''Last Dinner on the Titanic'' (Hyperion), by Dana McCauley and Rick Archbold.
*1999 ''Noodles Express: Fast and Easy Recipes in 15 to 45 Minutes'' (Random House), by Dana McCauley.
*2002 ''Pantry Raid: Out of the Cupboard Cooking'' (Random House), by Dana McCauley.
*2007 ''Dana's Top Ten Table'' (Harper Collins)

References

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Living people
1966 births
Canadian cookbook writers
People from Newmarket, Ontario
Women cookbook writers
20th-century Canadian women writers
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian women non-fiction writers