Kim O’Donnel

About the Author

Kim O’Donnel, author of The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook, is a trained chef, nationally recognized online food personality and longtime journalist. She’s a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education and The University of Pennsylvania. She writes a weekly column for USA Today. Formerly of the Washington Post she has also written for Real Simple, Huffington Post, CivilEats.com, True/Slant, and Smithsonian.com.

Kim is a regular contributor to Culinate, where she hosts a weekly cooking chat. Kim is the founder of Canning Across America, a collective dedicated to the revival of preserving food. Her latest project is Family Kitchen, a twice-monthly column that appears alternating Wednesdays in USA Today. Kim was a 2009 Duncan Eat-Write fellow at The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She is a member of the International Association for Culinary Professionals and she sits on the James Beard Journalism Awards committee.

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