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Catherine (Cat) Neville is the Emmy-winning producer and host of tasteMAKERS, a food-focused series that debuted on public television stations nationwide in October 2018. The show explores the maker movement from coast to coast and is distributed through American Public Television. As a companion to the series, Cat hosts immersive events across the country - Meet the Makers brings makers, farmers and chefs from up on stage for interviews and demos. The live program is followed by a pop-up Makers Market that features vendors offering samples and selling their wares on site.
Cat is also publisher of Feast Magazine and producer and host of Feast TV, which aired on public television stations across Missouri and southern Illinois for seven seasons. Cat joined Lee Enterprises in 2010 to develop Feast, which debuted in August 2010; the regional magazine has a circulation of 150,000.
Cat has won eight Mid-America Emmy Awards. In 2016. In 2015, Cat was named one of Folio:'s Top Women in Media in the Entrepreneur category. Cat was awarded Lee Enterprises President's Award for Innovation twice and won an Eddie Award in 2014 for her feature article on St. Louis chef Kevin Willmann as well as Media Person of the Year from the Missouri Restaurant Association. She was named one of St. Louis' 30 Under 30 by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2005.
In 1999, Cat co-founded Sauce Magazine and oversaw its evolution for a decade. She sold her interest in Bent Mind Creative Group, LLC, Sauce Magazine's parent company, in February of 2010. Feast and Sauce each received nominations for James Beard journalism awards under her direction.
