Katherine Lee is an American cookbook author, television food critic, and novelist born in West Virginia. She has worked in several restaurants and published two cookbooks. She served as a contributor to several magazines and TV shows, including Iron Chef America, an American cooking show competition, where she was a judge in 2007. She is a co-host of Food Network's talk show The Kitchen, and the host of Cooking Channel's Beach Bites with Katie Lee.
Lee is a member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council. She previously sat on the council of Chefs for Humanity, a group that provides humanitarian aid worldwide. She has also volunteered for Les Dames d'Escoffier, an organization that educates and mentors women in the culinary profession.
Lee appeared on the video blog Wine Library TV with Gary Vaynerchuk on May 8, 2009.
Lee has been a guest judge on Beat Bobby Flay many times, including on July 21, 2016, for a special "Ladies Night" episode.
Lee is a co-host of Food Network's talk show The Kitchen, and the Cooking Channel's Beach Bites with Katie Lee. Lee has also appeared as a judge on Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship.
