Cat Cora made her television debut when? Cora made her television debut in 1999 as co-host of Food Network's Melting Pot With Rocco Di Spirito. Over the next several years, she hosted or co-hosted several TV shows, including My Country My Kitchen: Greece (Food Network), Simplify Your Life (Fine Living) and Kitchen Accomplished (Food Network).
In response to the 2004 tsunami, Cora co-founded Chefs for Humanity in January 2005, an organization modeled on Doctors Without Borders that brings together "a grassroots coalition of chefs and culinary professionals guided by a mission to quickly be able to raise funds and provide resources for important emergency and humanitarian aid, nutritional education, and hunger-related initiatives throughout the world."
The money raised by Chefs for Humanity so far has benefited UNICEF, Hurricane Katrina victims and other anti-hunger initiatives worldwide.
But things really began to take off for Cora in April 2005, when she was invited to be the first female challenger on the popular competitive cooking series Iron Chef America.
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