Kim O’Donnel has been cooking professionally since 1996. A graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, Kim has worked in various capacities in the food world, including line cook, caterer, instructor, private chef and online cooking personality.

It is at washingtonpost.com where Kim spread her online wings, as creator and host of “What’s Cooking,” a live Web chat about cooking launched in 1999. In addition, she is the hand that feeds and the voice of “A Mighty Appetite,” washingtonpost.com’s food blog.

Kim’s culinary curiosity has taken her to various points around the world, including southern Africa, the West Indies and the Piedmont region of Italy, where she took a Master course in Italian cuisine. In 2007, Kim was a volunteer chef in New Orleans with CulinaryCorps, a New York-based organization.

For three years, Kim penned “Kitchen Witch,” a recipe column for an Atlanta newsweekly. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post Food and Travel sections. In 2007, she self-published her first cookbook, “A Mighty Appetite for the Holidays.”

When not at the stove, Kim is devouring cookbooks and food memoirs, usually curled under the covers in Arlington, Va., where she lives with her husband, who happens to be a very good eater.

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