Kat Robinson, our festival co-chair, at the Arkansas Pie Festival.

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Kat Robinson is Arkansas’s food historian and enthusiastic road warrior. The Little Rock-based author is the producer and Emmy-nominated host of Arkansas Dairy Bars: Neat Eats and Cool Treats (2021), the host of the Emmy-nominated documentary Make Room for Pie: A Delicious Slice of The Natural State (2018), and host of the Arkansas PBS program Home Cooking with Kat and Friends.

Robinson is also a member of the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame committee, a co-chair of the Arkansas Pie Festival, and the Arkansas fellow to the  National Food and Beverage Museum. In 2022, she was selected as the Best Author in the Arkansas Times Readers Choice Awards.

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Her most recent book, outside of the just released The Great Arkansas Pie Book, iis the cookbook Arkansas Cookery: Retro Recipes from The Natural State. In the latter, Robinson examines mid-century cookbooks from all over Arkansas and delivers more than 100 dishes she researched, redacted, cooked, and photographed over the course of 12 days at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs.