About Us
Established in 2021 The Cooking Cat is a collaborative effort between husband and wife pair Marna and Iwan Ross. Marna is a professional chef with more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry. She selflessly shares her recipes obtained from experience during her time as a chef at many top-rated establishments. She holds nothing back and shares everything she knows and is always ready to give advice to anyone seeking a tip. Marna is the success behind the food stories and recipes found on The Cooking Cat.
Together they are also working on a Cookbook called The Taste of Thyme. Marna Ross’s food blog, The Smoking Chimney, has received starred reviews from around the globe. Marna lives in Wellington with her husband, an exceptionally perfect dog, a near exceptionally perfect dog, and a cat picture in a wall frame, hence the name The Cooking Cat. Before she started writing recipe books, Marna got an International culinary diploma from Warwick’s Chef School. After that, just to shake things up, she worked at four and five-star establishments preparing impressive menus for an International audience. Then she did a handful of short courses in preparation for life as a food blogger and another few courses in the financial field. She now works full-time as a financial clerk, writing about food as a hobby.
So, now you know all about the cooking cat. A little more about us. My wife is an experienced chef with more than 20 years cooking experience. She has accumulated more than a fair share of recipes over her many years of experience, cooking for an international audience in four and five star establishments. She later decided to pursue a career in the financial sector, but still practises cooking and shares her recipes on her own personal blog. The name of her food blog is The Smoking Chimney. Also a nice name, I think.
Iwan Ross is a Solutions Engineer and devotes his energy and experience in his free time to the development of The Cooking Cat. He is the person behind the scenes responsible for the food, recipe, restaurant, and chef trends. He developed the concept of the recipe database used by both The Smoking Chimney and The Cooking Cat. As an SEO content writer, he understands the importance of schema structured data and has implemented the structured markup for the recipes, articles, site links search box, and others on all the pages of the website. The recipe database has been designed around the use of structured data. He is also the engineer behind Iwan Ross.
Iwan and Marna also help new and upcoming food bloggers to get established and develop cutting-edge solutions to help food bloggers find a place in the niche food blogging market. They spend many weekends creating and sharing vlogs on video streaming platforms. Far from celebrities, but they keep their personal lives private.
As Iwan would say “Everybody can be famous, but not everybody wants to be”
We hope you enjoy your time @ The Cooking Cat and we are happy you are here.
