Cathy Connally

Cathy Connally's culinary career had an inauspicious start at nine years old, with the renovation of her mother's kitchen involving the Yellow Springs, Ohio fire department. Later, to the horror of a high school teacher in St. Peter, Minnesota, she would win a Betty Crocker Award, only because she was good at math. This vote of confidence would propel her into internal audit in the global mining sector and eventually to a career as an entrepreneur in technology. Eating countless takeout meals while driving hours to put out project "fires," was leading to a slow train wreck on the health front. She recalled a lesson she had learned at five years old about food as medicine. This led to the birth of "Flavour with Benefits," the pursuit of flavour that doesn't compromise on health.