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 as The Test Kitchen Incorporated. Dana was the executive chef for DineWise, an  online gourmet food company. Dana sold her consulting company in 2010 to Amy Snider Whitson, who renamed it The Test Kitchen Inc. At the same time, McCauley took a job with Janes Family Foods as their culinary director. She was also cast as an on-air judge on the Food Network Canada original reality series called "Recipe to Riches". Her co-judges include Laura Calder, Tony Champman and Galen Weston, Jr. The show was created by Temple Street Productions She was the founding executive director for Food Starter (now called District Kitchen), a food biz incubator and accelerator created by  the City of Toronto which 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 30 times, including in the Globe and Mai l, National Post and EatNorth as well  as dozens of trade magazines and podcasts such as The Feast and What the Farm Podcast and 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 nineties to 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 hundreds of 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.