Kate Cathey is a writer and anthropologist. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she studied Art History, and later graduated with a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures, concentration in Anthropology, from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since then, she has traveled extensively in Latin America, researching and writing about regional cultural and culinary traditions. In 2009 Kate moved to Bogotü¾Œ–”¼, Colombia, where she directed cultural travel programs and was a contributor to Bogotü¾Œ–”¼'s English-language newspaper, The City Paper.