Katherine Martinelli is a food and travel writer and photographer who can be found either cooking or cuddled up with a cookbook in her spare time. A regular contributor to publications on three continents, her work has appeared in Time Out Israel, The Jewish Daily Forward, The Jewish Chronicle, StarChefs.com, and other publications. She has also written a travel app on where to eat in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, which will be released in early 2012. Native New Yorkers, Katherine and her husband currently call Be’er Sheva, Israel home.

Follow Katherine at her blog, www.katherinemartinelli.com, on twitter @martinellieats, and on Facebook www.facebook.com/katherinemartinelli