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 female Canadian chefs holding a Red Seal in both Cooking and Baking.

In less than a year, Cat took her idea for a food adventure and turned it into a thriving business with waitlists for her classes. Well Bread Culinary Centre is the only privately owned culinary education centre in all of northern Canada. Cat invites guest Chefs and talented home cooks of every culture to join her in the Well Bread kitchen. Together they build kitchen confidence in the young and old. Chef Cat is dedicated to preserving heritage cooking techniques in the modern kitchen.

Cat is a 2023 IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) judge, a member of the Bread Baker’s Guild of America, Baking Association of Canada, International Society of Female Professionals, International Association of Culinary Professionals and Women and Chef Restaurateurs. Chef Cat is a member of the panel of culinary experts who choose Air Canada enRoute's Best New Canadian Restaurants and Rising Chefs. 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 at Well Bread. 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. 

Join Chef Cat and the many culinary experts she collaborates with at Well Bread. There is a class for everyone here; young and old, professional and beginner home cooks alike.