Be You Cookbook: Mindful Recipes to Inspire the Inner You

Katie Belanger, author, illustrator, and chef lives a very colorful life through creative arts. While growing up in Chicago, she built her own culinary style from working in the restaurant world for 10 years, earning a degree in business and restaurant management, tasting through endless travels, and never forgetting to be your very best self every step of the way. The Honey B is her own quirky, quaint restaurant in Santa Barbara, CA cooking up a unique selection of her homemade recipes. Katie thrives off using plant-based ingredients in unique and innovative ways. Her recipes and paintings alike glow with color, creating irresistible happiness energizing the restaurant. Stimulating her creativity, painting is her yin and cooking is her yang. Katie has also showcased her culinary creativity, winning TNT’s cooking show On The Menu along with featuring The Honey B waffles on Haley’s America on The Food Channel. She’s also been seen on local cooking channels. The Be You Cookbook is based off the happy life Katie likes to live by; “Spread the love of cooking to encourage creativity within yourself!”