Kathy Strahs

Kathy Strahs is the award-winning author of The Lemonade Stand Cookbook, The 8x8 Cookbook, and The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook, and the voice behind the blogs PaniniHappy.com, CookingOntheSide.com, and SunnyDaysGoodFood.com. A former marketer with an MBA from Stanford, Kathy founded Burnt Cheese Press, a food-focused independent publishing company, in 2015. Its first release, The 8x8 Cookbook, received the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Gold Award for Best First Book-Nonfiction. Kathy has spoken at at multiple conferences including the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) and has judged numerous cooking competitions. She is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and a past board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association. She lives with her husband and their two children in the Silicon Valley.