Your DineWise Web Host
Dana McCauley is our DineWise in-house food expert. Chef Dana contributes to your DineWise Web experience by:
Personally reviewing and writing all the descriptions of DineWise food products.
Helping to develop new lifestyle and nutritional products.
Acting as content editor for the DineWise Newsletter: Rethink Meals.
Additionally, Chef Dana filters through all the news stories and health announcements in the media and then condenses the most important information into easy-to-read articles that will advise her readers how to make smart food choices.
Sign up for DineWise's Newsletter! Rethink Meals is packed with new thinking including great suggestions for enjoying all your favorite foods, staying healthy and entertaining with ease!
Chef Dana brings to DineWise over 15 years of experience as a writer and consultant to the food industry. Besides being a stellar cook and passionate foodie, she is also a busy mom who understands the term "time strapped" as well as anyone.
"I am one of the few people I know who can say honestly that I love every aspect of my job," says Chef Dana. "Food is one of the most important aspects in all our lives but so few of us have time to enjoy preparing and eating dinner every night of the week.
"I love my role at DineWise because it allows me the opportunity to communicate truly useful cooking solutions that will help people not only to enjoy eating great meals with their families and friends, but will also help them to make smart, healthy food choices at the same time!"
Send your cooking tips and questions to Chef Dana today by emailing her at dana.mccauley@dinewise.com. You might just find your name in Rethink Meals!
About Chef Dana
Dana McCauley has gained prominent stature as an international corporate food consultant by accurately forecasting trends in her quarterly email newsletter Topline Trends, and by delivering quality creative services to her clients. By monitoring the food scene in the USA, Canada, Asia and Europe, she tracks emerging trends that will have an impact on future grocery innovation. Her leadership and expertise are key factors in the success of her team. She excels in the realms of grocery product development, recipe writing and research.
Recognized as an expert by her peers and the media alike, Dana McCauley is often called upon to speak about food trends and opportunities for food manufacturers. Most recently she was a featured presenter at Food In Motion, a seminar that coincided with the Private Label Marketing Association show held in Chicago. Dana was a featured guest speaker at the Food & Beverage Marketing Conference (Feb, 22-23) in Toronto and at the Designing and Marketing Food to Boomers Conference hosted by the Guelph Food and Technology Centre. Dana has addressed audiences at the Smithsonian Institution as well as at events held in cities from Honolulu to New York City. Television shows such as CNN, Fox News, The Today Show, and The Leeza Gibbons Show have all featured Dana and print journalists at magazines such as Newsweek often interview her as well.
In her role as a freelance food writer, Dana crafts cookery and other food related magazine and newspaper articles. Dana is the food editor for Gardening Life magazine and she is the former food editor for Homemaker's and Style at Home magazines. She also contributes frequently to Cooking Light, one of America's top-selling food magazines. These experiences coupled with her success as a cookbook author make Dana keenly sensitive to evolving consumer tastes.
In the world of publishing, Dana McCauley is an internationally proven author who believes that a thorough understanding of the past is essential to predict where food trends will go in the future. She has collaborated with US etiquette icon Letitia Baldrige (http://www.letitia.com) and Kennedy Administration White House chef René Verdon to create books for the American market.
Chronological list of Published Books:
1996 Centro Cooks: A Celebration of the Seasons (Random House), by Barbara Prevedello. Culinary consulting and food styling by Dana McCauley.
1997 Last Dinner on the Titanic (Hyperion), by Dana McCauley and Rick Archbold, 170,000 copies in print in English, French, Japanese, German and Czech.
1998 In the Kennedy Style (Doubleday), by Letitia Baldrige and Chef René Verdon, culinary consulting by Dana McCauley.
1999 Noodles Express: Fast and Easy Recipes in 15 to 45 Minutes (Random House), by Dana McCauley.
2001 Legendary Brides (Random House), by Letitia Baldrige, culinary consulting by Dana McCauley.
2002 Pantry Raid: Out of the Cupboard Cooking (Random House), by Dana McCauley. Introduction by Elizabeth Baird.
2002 Homemaker's Menu of the Month Cookbook (Key Porter), edited by Dana McCauley, written by the food writers of Homemaker's Magazine.
2007 Dana’s Top Ten Table (Harper Collins), by Dana McCauley.
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