The Globe & Mail has chosen Chef Cat for their 2020 rising star Chef to Watch edition. Read more about that article here:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/article-canadas-kitchen-2020-introducing-the-countrys-next-star-chefs/#recipe-yt

Chef Catherine (Cat) McInroy was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon to generational immigrant parents from Eastern Europe. Her earliest food memories are with her mother in the family kitchen making bread, pasta, cutting up wild meat and making sausage. Youngest of 7 children, she and her siblings grew up camping and fishing with their parents and farming and hunting on her Dad's trap line in the Ibex Valley. 

Cat started her cooking career while working full-time shift work as a first responder in the RCMP. On her days off, she gained experience with many local chefs, catered her own and friend's weddings and helped formulate the Air North flight kitchen in its earliest days. Cat has had the privilege of cooking for delegates and celebrities who come through the Yukon.

In 2005, Cat completed a distance delivery course with Highest Honours in Cooking and Catering, (Le Cordon Bleu), and in 2016 graduated Highest Honours in Baking & Pastry Arts, from SAIT in Calgary, Alberta. In 2017, she attended The Welbeck Artisan Food School in England. Chef Cat is one in a very small handful of Canadian chefs holding a Red Seal in both Cooking and Baking.

Cat is a 2023 IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) judge, a member of the Bread Bakers Guild of America, Baking Association of Canada, International Society of Female Professionals, International Association of Culinary Professionals and Women and Chef Restaurateurs. Cat is the Northern Territories representative for the Love Canadian Beans campaign https://www.lovecanadianbeans.ca/explore/northern-territories#cooking. Chef Cat has contributed recipes and cooking instruction in many Canadian publications including Chatelaine Magazine https://chatelaine.com/food/yukon-sourdough-memoir/ and collaborates with cookbook authors in Canada and the United States, where her recipes are published in hardcover publications. 

Chef Cat has hosted and taught high-level media food writers from around the world. She has been featured in National Geographic, Toronto Sun, Hello Magazine UK, Travel & Leisure, Australian Explore TV https://youtu.be/j_2Qyo_Pdjg?si=66_AHD7j6OH6_RC- and many other publications on YouTube and around the world. 

In 2025 Chef Cat will be transitioning away from her downtown cooking school location. She will continue to provide private cooking lessons to her clients in their homes, and also offer culinary consulting to her business clients in Yukon and around the world.