Mara Rogers is the Founder and Editorial Director of the food marketing and editorial services firm Cakewalk Communications http://www.CakewalkCommunications.com. She has 15 years of experience in food communications: publishing, media, public relations, and brand marketing.

Mara Rogers is an award-winning freelance food, travel and lifestyle writer in digital and print, as well as professionally media-trained and on-air media talent for television, radio, and satellite media tours.

Mara has many notable accomplishments, among them are: co-host of the radio show “The Midday Dish with Mara Reid Rogers” on WJON-AM where she reported on travel, spas and food and lifestyle; the host and executive producer of the lifestyle radio show “Gracious Living Today” on WQXI-AM where just after the show’s first 32 days Mara was one of three finalists in the “Best New Talent” category in the A.I.R.—Achievement In Radio—Awards. Mara was also co-host of the national cooking series Cook-Off America on Public Television that was one of the top three cooking shows in the nation.

Mara Rogers is the author of nine Cookbooks. The South the Beautiful Cookbook, which she co-authored, was lauded “One Of The Year’s Top Ten Cookbooks” according to Nation’s Restaurant News, and several of her other cookbooks were main selections of national book clubs such as The Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook Club.

A number of the front-page centerpiece freelance feature articles Mara Rogers wrote for the largest newspaper in the Southeast “The Atlanta Journal Constitution” won National Awards from the Association of Food Journalists.  Her first personal culinary website won a USA Today Award for “Hot New Site.”

She was the Food and Home Entertaining Editor of Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles magazine and the Assistant Food and Home Entertaining Editor for the national House Beautiful magazine.  

She has written Guest Posts for some of the Top 50 Blogs of the world including Zen Habits, Problogger, and Copyblogger.

Mara also writes travel, food, and restaurant blog posts as well as writes and edits travel guidebooks for OffbeatGuides “the most current guidebooks in the world and the only guidebooks on Amazon’s Kindle” founded by Dave Sifry who also founded Technorati the largest blog search engine in the world.

She has worked as a freelance writer and interviewed high-profile individuals for the ongoing WonderWomen column for Bay Area Business Woman News and also contributed freelance articles for San Francisco magazine and the national Cooking Pleasures magazine. She was also the Creative Publicist for the Food and Lifestyle Division of Pringle, Dixon, Pringle in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mara Rogers is a graduate of the professional culinary program at Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, she also has a degree in commercial photography and communication design from Parson’s School of Design in New York City, and studied writing and film at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.