Melina Hammer

Melina is an award-winning food photographer, book author, stylist, chef, and mastermind behind Catbird Cottage.

After years working with the New York Times, Eating Well, Blue Apron, Food52, and others, she now curates and prepares seasonal menus for guests at the destination bed & breakfast she runs with her husband, located in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Melina is currently writing her forthcoming cookbook A Year at Catbird Cottage with Ten Speed Press, due out in Spring 2022.