Get Cooking

Born in the U.K., Get Cooking chef and owner, Kathryn Joel, has been a world traveler and a food lover her entire life. Moving and traveling around Europe until her family made the trek to Canada when she was 13, Kathryn’s mother went to culinary school in Toronto and opened her own catering company, giving Kathryn cooking and work experience throughout university.

After university, Kathryn returned to the U.K. and landed a job with a Japanese investment bank. Although she’d built a lucrative career there, she wasn’t fulfilled: “As I was doing it, it just wasn’t me,” says Kathryn. “I was in a world that I had no affinity to; I had friends there, I liked the people, but I was lost in the work. So I started taking days off to do cooking classes.”