Catie Baumer Schwalb

Catie Baumer Schwalb is a chef, food writer and photographer, who splits her life between the city and the farm. Not too long ago Catie was a New York City based actress and playwright for more than a decade. She has her Master of Fine Arts from the National Theater Conservatory, and her grand diplôme in classic culinary arts from the French Culinary Institute in New York City.

Catie’s blog, Pitchfork Diaries, is her scrapbook of culinary exploration and food musings. It focuses on old-but-new-again techniques and cooking tutorials for a huge variety of homespun and hip food endeavors.

When not in NYC, Catie, her husband and new baby live in a rural town of two hundred residents in the Catskills, happily on their micro farm.

Catch up with Catie at PitchforkDiaries.com, on Facebook and on Twitter.