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. She is a former food editor for Gardening Life, Homemakers, and Style at Home magazines.[1] She was President of Dana McCauley & Associates Ltd., a company based in Maple, Ontario, which 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 The Test Kitchen Incorporated.

McCauley also worked as the executive chef for DineWise, an online gourmet food company.[2]

At the same time, McCauley took a job with Janes Family Foods as their culinary director. In addition, she was cast as an on-air judge on the Food Network Canada original reality series called Recipe to Riches. Her co-judges include Laura Calder,[3] Tony Champman [4] and Galen Weston, Jr. The show was created by Temple Street Productions [5] and aired starting October 2011 on Food Network Canada and Global TV.[6][7]

She was the founding executive director for Food Starter[8] (now called District Kitchen), a food business incubator and accelerator created by the City of Toronto. It is now operated by Arlene Dickinson's District Ventures. Before leaving Food Starter, she led it to win the Premier's Award for Innovation.[9] In the same year that she was awarded the Women's Executive Network's Top 100 award.

As of 2019, McCauley is the Director of New Venture Creation at the University of Guelph[10] where she helps researchers to create start-up companies based on their lab work.

Since 2017, she has been featured in Canadian media many times, including in the Globe and Mail,[11] National Post[12] and EatNorth[13] as well as dozens of trade magazines and podcasts, such as The Feast,[14] and a Sirius XM show.[15] 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.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Dana McCauley's bio". Homemakers.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  2. ^ "DineWise Meals, a la Carte Entrees and Side Dishes Makes Holidays Stress Free and Delicious". Euroinvestor.fr. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  3. ^ | Laura Calder |
  4. ^ Capital C
  5. ^ Temple Street Productions
  6. ^ "Recipe to Riches | Thank You Canada!". Archived from the original on 2011-08-28. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
  7. ^ "Casting Call: Is Your Recipe Worth $250,000? - Food News - Food Network Canada". Archived from the original on 2011-02-27. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
  8. ^ Starter, Food. "Food Starter opens its doors to serve up Toronto's best in up-and-coming food businesses, paving way for innovation and growth for future food companies". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  9. ^ "2016 Regional Award Winners - Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence". www.omafra.gov.on.ca. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  10. ^ "Globe and Mail Consults Food Trends Expert on Microwaves". U of G News. 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  11. ^ "The microwave's second act". Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  12. ^ Drinking, Eating & (2019-05-02). "'Startling': The price of celery is skyrocketing in Canada. Blame cold weather and a celebrity food fad | National Post". Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  13. ^ McCauley, Dana (2020-01-02). "Confessions of a food trend veteran". Eat North. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  14. ^ "The Feast". The Feast. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  15. ^ "What the Farm Podcast - Dana McCauley fork to farm". AGDAILY. Retrieved 2020-01-12.