McCarty, Kate

Kate McCarty is a blogger and community educator from Monkton, Maryland. She teaches food preservation at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Kate blogs about Maine food at The Blueberry Files (www.blueberryfiles.com) and has written food and drink features for several alt-weeklies and magazines. She is the co-founder of the Portland Spirits Society, a women's whiskey appreciation club, and is also the author of Portland Food: The Culinary Capital of Maine. Kate lives in Portland, Maine, with her boyfriend and their two cats.