Dana McCauley (born July 7, 1966, in Newmarket, Ontario) is a Canadian chef, food writer, food trend tracker, spokesperson, and international corporate food consultant. Dana is the former food editor for Gardening Life, Homemakers, and Style at Home magazines. She was President of Dana McCauley & Associates Ltd., a company based in Maple, Ontario, that provided services to the food industry, including grocery product development, recipe writing, research, food writing, and food trend tracking and analysis. It was sold to Amy Snider/Whitson, who renamed it The Test Kitchen Incorporated. Dana was also worked as the executive chef for DineWise, an online gourmet food company. At the same time, McCauley took a job with Janes Family Foods as their culinary director. In addition, she was cast as an on-air judge on the Food Network Canada original reality series called Recipe to Riches. Her co-judges include Laura Calder, Tony Champman and Galen Weston, Jr. The show was created by Temple Street Productions and aired starting October 2011 on Food Network Canada and Global TV. She was the founding executive director for Food Starter (now called District Kitchen), a food biz incubator and accelerator created by the City of Toronto which is now operated by Arlene Dickinson's District Ventures. Before leaving Food Starter, Dana led it to win the Premier's Award for Innovation In the same year that she was awarded the Women's Executive Network's Top 100 award. As of 2019, Dana is the Director of New Venture Creation at the University of Guelph where she helps researchers to create start-up companies based on their lab work. Since 2017, she has been featured in Canadian media 30 times, including in the Globe and Mail, National Post and EatNorth as well as dozens of trade magazines, podcasts, such as The Feast and What the Farm Podcast, and a Sirius XM show. In 2017 she was recognized as a change agent when she received the WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women award in the trailblazers and trendsetter category. Bibliography Dana has written four cookbooks: Last Dinner on the Titanic, Noodles Express: Fast and Easy Recipes in 15 to 45 Minutes, Dana's Top Ten Table, and Pantry Raid: Out of the Cupboard Cooking. She has also collaborated on In the Kennedy Style with US etiquette icon Letitia Baldrige, Kennedy Administration White House chef René Verdon and Legendary Brides, also with Baldridge. Personal Dana McCauley is married