Melina Hammer

Melina Hammer is an award-winning food photographer, stylist, chef, and now proprietor at Catbird Cottage. After years working with the New York Times, Eating Well, Blue Apron, and others, she now cooks for guests at the destination bed & breakfast she runs with her husband located in New York’s Hudson Valley. At the Catbird, she grows an heirloom kitchen garden and forages wild foods, curating of-the-moment seasonal menus for weekly guests. Melina is currently writing her forthcoming cookbook with Ten Speed Press, due out Spring 2022. catbirdcottage.com and @melinahammer