Alumni Spotlight:
EVA KATZ ’89

Eva received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Business Administration from Suffolk University. She was employed in the corporate world for a short time. Not quite satisfied, she gravitated toward boating. She joined the crews of small boats as their chef. It was then that she realized just how much there was to learn in the culinary arts.



Eva Katz '88


She attended the Professional Chef’s Program at The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and received her chef’s diploma. After a bit of traveling, she returned to the School full-time as Director of Continuing Education and Chef Instructor in Food Basics. Eva has spent the past ten years of her culinary career in recipe development, food writing, and food styling for magazine publications, such as Cooks Illustrated, Natural Health, Fine Cooking, Yankee Magazine, Boston Magazine, Walking Magazine, Australian Good Taste, Australian Gourmet Traveler, and Murdoch Magazines and has contributed to numerous cookbooks published by Boston Common Press and Little, Brown & Company. Prior to this, she worked in almost every aspect of the food industry as a chef, caterer, instructor, and administrator and was the director of the test kitchen for Cook’s Illustrated.

In addition to being a chef instructor in both New England and Australia, Eva has worked at a variety of restaurants across the globe, including the four and half star Seasons Restaurant at the Bostonian Hotel in Boston, aboard private yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, and as a consultant to a restaurant in the Dominican Republic, among others. She has appeared as a guest chef on TV segments including “Smart Women,” a nationally syndicated cooking segment on Ivanhoe Broadcast News; “Mosaic,” a multi-cultural affairs show on WLVI-TV in Boston; and on Boston’s Channel 56 “Ten O’Clock News Life Watch.”

Currently, Eva is an associate editor of Cook’s Country, a new sister publication of Cook’s Illustrated, and was instrumental in its development. The magazine shares the fondness of country food and all that goes with it. Its charter issue was released this Spring.

Eva is an active member of the School’s Program Advisory Committee. She is the recipient of a Scholarship Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and is a member of the Women’s Culinary Guild. Eva currently resides in Jamaica Plain, MA, with her husband Philip Sugerman and sons, Ari, 5, and Gabriel, 3.