About Katie Quinn Davies

Katie Quinn Davies

Katie Quinn Davies is a food and lifestyle photographer who shoots for publications including Food & Wine and Martha Stewart Living. She develops, cooks, styles, and shoots recipes for her blog, What Katie Ate, which won the 2011 Best Food Photography Award from Saveur.com. She’s also the author of a cookbook by the same name, What Katie Ate. A native of Dublin, Ireland, Davies now lives in Sydney, Australia. @quinnoijj

A copper pot filled with beef and Guinness pie topped with puff pastry on a towel on a cooking rack with a bottle behind it.

Beef and Guinness Pie

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Essentially Irish stew with some lovely store-bought puff pastry plopped on top. Easy peasy. And actually, quite elegant.

Two glasses filled with Mexican blood Mary, some lime wedges, a mostly empty bottle of Corona, and a bottle of Tabsco on its side.

Mexican Bloody Mary

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Call it what you will, this cocktail is equal parts Mexican Bloody Mary, riff on a michelada, and a simple but satisfying tomato beer.