Cat Cora comes from a long line of chefs. Growing up with a family of restaurateurs in Jackson, Mississippi certainly paved a culinary path for Cat. She cites Julia Child, Barbara Tropp, M.F.K. Fisher and her own grandmother Alma as her inspirations. She enjoys blending Greek and Southern flavors when she is concocting her delicious meals and snacks. Cat is a co-founder of Chefs for Humanity, an organization that brings together chefs and culinary professionals with the aim of providing emergency and humanitarian aid in order to address the issue of hunger all over the world. Cat is a graduate of the famous Culinary Institute of America and has co-hosted the show Kitchen Accomplished on the Food Network.
Cat is also a regular on another popular show on the Food Network. She is the only female chef in history to become a part of the franchise Iron Chef America: The Series. She shares the “wall of fame” in the Kitchen Stadium with other iron chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto. She is assisted by Lorilynn Bauer and David Schimmel and her specialty is Greek and Aegean cuisine. She also hosted "The Muppets Kitchen with Cat Cora", a webseries where she cooks with the Muppets. In 2011, she opened an eponymous bar and restaurant at the San Francisco International Airport.