Catherine McCord is the founder of Weelicious and the author of four cookbooks: Meal Prep Magic, Smoothie Project, Weelicious Lunches: Think Outside the Lunch Box, and Weelicious: One Family. One Meal. A chef, TV host, and mom of three, she launched Weelicious in 2007 to show parents how simple and rewarding it can be to feed their families wholesome, homemade food. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children, Kenya, Chloe, and Gemma.
Education
Institute of Culinary Education, New York City: Professional Culinary Arts
Expertise
- Author of four cookbooks: Weelicious: One Family. One Meal. (William Morrow, 2012), Weelicious Lunches: Think Outside the Lunchbox (William Morrow, 2013), Smoothie Project, and Meal Prep Magic.
- Has developed and tested more than 1,400 original family-friendly recipes for Weelicious, focused on simple, wholesome cooking for the whole family.
- Weelicious was named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Influential Mommy Blogs.”
- A Food Network Kitchen app star and a judge on Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games.
Experience
A childhood passion for cooking led Catherine to the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, followed by several years working in high-end restaurant kitchens. Everything changed when she had her first child, Kenya. Searching for a resource that offered parents simple, nutritious, flavorful recipes made with minimal ingredients, she couldn’t find one, so in 2007 she created it herself.
What began as a place for new parents feeding babies and toddlers has grown right alongside her three children into a trusted resource for over 1,400 family-friendly recipes. Today Catherine spends her days developing recipes, creating cooking videos, and writing for Weelicious, with plenty of taste-testing help from her kids.
Catherine has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC’s The Chew, The Doctors, Access Hollywood Live, KTLA, and Fox News, and she hosted “On the Go with Catherine McCord,” a weekly segment on NBC’s Naturally, Danny Seo. She’s a regular judge on Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games and has guested on Next Food Network Star, Big Bad Budget Battle with Ree Drummond, Duff Till Dawn, and Super Chef Grudge Match.
Read more about Weelicious here.
Featured In
Catherine’s recipes and family-feeding expertise have been featured across national television, magazines, and digital media, including:
A Few Fun Facts About Catherine
She started out as a model. Before the kitchen, she appeared on magazine covers including Elle, Italian Vogue, and Glamour, and on runways for Gucci, Calvin Klein, and Victoria’s Secret.
The farmers market is her happy place. She goes every Sunday to stock up on the freshest, most colorful produce she can find.
She once co-hosted New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Regis Philbin.
She collects cookbooks, and she’s especially drawn to the ones with beautiful photography. Her shelves are full of them.