Cathy Bar­row is a food writer, cook­ing teacher and pie mak­er. She has writ­ten for the New York Times, Gar­den and Gun, The Local Palate, Mod­ern Farmer, Saveur, South­ern Liv­ing, NPR, and Nation­al Geo­graph­ic, among oth­ers. Cathy lives near Wash­ing­ton, DC, with her hus­band, Den­nis and two res­cue terriers.