Andrea Farnum (Kitchen Goddess) is an acclaimed caterer, event planner and entertaining goddess extraordinaire. She began her food career in New York fifteen years ago with a successful cottage catering business called The Sweet Tomato. After moving to Baltimore in 1995, she followed with a three-year stint at The Classic Catering People, and then created her own independent corporate event and wedding planning business.
She has planned or catered such luminous events as: The 100th Episode of the television show Homicide for 1000 guests, The Baltimore Sun’s Pulitzer Prize Winner Celebration for 400 guests (which was miraculously put together in 48 hours), and a Goldman Sachs/Johns Hopkins Symposium on Minority Achievement.

Andrea Farnum works with acclaimed chef, John Shields and is his sidekick – the Kitchen Goddess – on his PBS show, Coastal Cooking with John Shields. She also is owner of Full Bloom, an event and marketing company which develops and consults for strategic events nationwide. For further information go to www.fullbloomevents.com or www.kitchengoddessonline.com.
In her spare time, she writes a bi-monthly food column for the Baltimore publication, Smart Woman.

She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband, Lincoln and two daughters.