Kathy Casey is a celebrity chef, mixologist, entertaining expert and pioneer in the bar-chef movement.

Casey played a key role in bringing Northwest cuisine and women chefs to national prominence as one of the first female executive chefs in the United States. She was named one of Food & Wine’s “hot new American chefs.” Casey, a pioneer in the hand-crafted cocktail movement, also has been touted by Dale DeGroff as “the original bar chef.”

A savvy spotter of what's hot on the culinary and cocktail scene, Kathy is a frequent TV and radio guest and speaker on trends. She has been featured in numerous national publications, including Esquire, USA Today, Fortune, People Magazine, Cheers, Food Arts, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Time Out, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. She has appeared on such shows as CNN, Good Morning America, Food Network's Unwrapped, the Travel Channel's Cooking Across America, the Larry King Show, Fine Living's Great Cocktails, CBS This Morning and Northern Exposure. You can often catch her on television as a frequent guest chef and mixologist, on PBS, and in commercials across the American West. Her new web show Kathy Casey’s Liquid Kitchen™ can be seen fall 2010 on Small Screen Network's website.

Kathy is the owner of Kathy Casey Food Studios® - Liquid Kitchen™, an international agency specializing in delicious creativity: food, beverage and restaurant/hospitality concept consulting; product development; and food and beverage promotions through social media. Clients such as Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Ritz Carlton, Cheesecake Factory, Minute Maid, Sunset Produce, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, Costco, Wild Hibiscus, Holland America Line, Unilever, Monin Gourmet, Beam Global Spirits, SKYY Spirits, Moet Hennessy and Remy Cointreau have sought her assistance with development skills, advice and expertise.

Kathy also own Dish D’Lish® “Food to Go-Go” cafes - as well as Dish D’Lish branded retail and food-service specialty food products and cocktail mixers.

As an accomplished writer, she has written nine cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-nominated Kathy Casey’s Northwest Table. Her newest book is Sips & Apps. Kathy wrote her feature column, “Dishing with Kathy Casey” for the Seattle Times for 12 years; now you can catch her latest Dishing adventures on her blog. Casey is also a freelance writer and also blogs for Food Network Canada and Amazon's Al Dente blog. You can catch her on Twitter (@KathyCaseyChef), with Dishing with Kathy Casey blog or find Sips & Apps on Facebook.

For more information, visit www.kathycasey.com.