Cathy Huyghe / Wine Writer and Consultant, Forbes.com

Cathy Huyghe is the founder of 365daysofwine.com, a website about drinking wine every day in the Boston area and Red White Boston, a for-profit marketing service that designs and promotes wine events in the Boston area.

Cathy’s first restaurant gig was at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, when she literally knocked on the kitchen’s back door and asked if she could work there. She also has worked for Jean-Pierre Vigato in Paris (at Natachef bistro and at his two-star restaurant, Apicius) and for Thomas Keller at Bouchon in Las Vegas. She studied at La Varenne École de Cuisine in Burgundy, France; she completed the Wine Studies program at Boston University; and she received Advanced Certification from WSET (Wine and Spirits Education Trust), where she continues her wine studies.

Cathy’s writing — about wine, food, and travel — has appeared on NBC’s Feast, the BBC’s The World, WGBH public broadcasting, GlobalPost.com, Grist.org, QRW: Quarterly Review of Wines, Wine Enthusiast, Sommelier Journal, Boston magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Edible Boston, and on Nevada Public Radio.

Cathy received a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard in 2004 and also completed the journalism program at Harvard. She received a master’s degree in comparative literature from the City University of New York in 1998 and a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University in 1995.

In April 2008 she founded the Harvard Alumni in Wine and Food special interest group, which provides educational and networking services to the Harvard community, alumni, and current students.