Kate Gibbs

Kate Gibbs is a Sydney-based journalist and cookbook author. She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Wall Street Journal, Sunday Life in The Sun Herald, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Broadsheet Sydney, The London Evening Standard, frankie magazine and Cosmopolitan magazine among others. See examples of her published work here. Her weekly food column Bake it appears in Sunday Life magazine. She writes a weekly column on food for Cosmopolitan magazine online. She co-authored The Foodies Guide to Sydney in 2011 and 2012, and is a major contributor to SMH Everyday Eats and the SMH Good Cafe Guide. Kate was anthologised in the collection Voracious: Australia’s Best Australian Food Writing with her essay Future Food. She has won awards for her writing, including a National Press Club journalism award. Her first cookbook, The Thrifty Kitchen, was published in 2009 by Penguin. After Toast, recipes for aspiring cooks, her second book, is out now. Kate Gibbs is Margaret Fulton’s granddaughter and Suzanne Gibbs’ daughter. Kate was named one of Australia’s Top 100 most inspiring women in the June 2013 issue of Madison magazine in the area of Health.