Cooking for health,
cooking for everyone.

Food that heals,
food that gathers.

I'm Katie, the chef behind this little corner of the internet. I cook out of my kitchen in Kansas City, and my one big idea is pretty simple: food should heal you and bring you together with the people you love. That's it. If it does both, I'm cooking it.

"Eating the rainbow isn't an aesthetic — it's the easiest way I know to make food that's both beautiful and good for you."

I grew up in a family where cooking was the way we knew each other. I learned to bake with my mom and my Jo Jo. I learned the soul of Italian cooking with Grandma Ferro — Sunday sauce, hand-rolled noodles, lasagna almost every week. I learned pizza dough and the joy of a loud kitchen from my dad. The making of the food was always as much of the joy as the eating of it, and that's the part I'm trying to pass forward.

Today I cook plant-based, with a deep focus on what I call "food that heals" — recipes built around the full color spectrum of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and whole grains. Not because I'm strict about it, but because that's what actually makes you feel good, and what actually tastes the most alive.

I love to travel and bring kitchens home with me — Spain, Italy, the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia — and quietly tweak them to be plant-friendly without losing their soul. My sous-chefs every Sunday are my Black Lab Wrigley and my husband Ben (who also act as the most enthusiastic taste-testers in Kansas). We cook together. We savor slowly. We invite people over. That's the whole thing.