Julie Gale opened At the Kitchen Table Cooking School in 2001 in Westchester County, New York. At the same time, she was the writer of a food column, Dine and Wine, for The Larchmont Gazette. She was the recipe developer for the children’s book, I Want to Cook. She taught cooking as a guest at Williams College, Olana, A Different Drummer, and the Chef’s Shop in Great Barrington, Ma. and the cooking instructor at The Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School. She was the Retreat chef at the Won Dharma Center for several years. Gale received a Master’s in Community Social Work from Yeshiva University and maintained a private practice advising parents through the Special Education process in Westchester County until moving to Columbia County in the Northern Hudson Valley. She lives in rural Hillsdale, New York with her husband and together they have four grown children who live in Hudson, Nashville, Boulder and London