Amy Thielen is a chef, food writer, and television personality who focuses on Midwestern cooking and food culture. She is the author of the James Beard award-winning cookbook ''The New Midwestern Table'' (Clarkson Potter, 2013) and ''Give a Girl a Knife'' (Clarkson Potter, 2017) . She was also the host of ''Heartland Table'', which debuted in September 2013 on
Food Network
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; season two premiered in March 2014.
Background and personal life
Thielen grew up in rural northern Minnesota and graduated from
Macalester College
Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S te ...
in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1997 with a degree in English. In 1999, she moved to New York City to attend cooking school and cooked professionally for seven years in the kitchens of chefs
David Bouley (Danube, Bouley),
(66),
Daniel Boulud
Daniel Boulud (born 25 March 1955 in Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu) is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, Singapore, the Bahamas, the Berkshires and Dubai. He is best known f ...
(DB Bistro Moderne), and Shea Gallante (Cru). In 2008, she and her family moved from Brooklyn to the countryside near their hometown. Thielen has written for publications such as ''
Men’s Journal
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'' and ''
Saveur
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''. Her articles in the ''
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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'' won her a
James Beard Foundation Award
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for journalism in 2011. Thielen's recipes have been featured in ''
Food & Wine Magazine
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'', ''
Parade Magazine'', ''
People Magazine
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'' and on
National Public Radio
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. In spring of 2014 her cookbook won the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award in American Cooking. Her television show was also nominated for a James Beard Foundation Broadcast and New Media Award in Television Program. Thielen is married to visual artist
Aaron Spangler. Her aunt, uncle and cousins own and operate Thielen Meats of Pierz.
Television show and book
According to a Random House press release, "The simultaneous launch of Thielen’s television show, ''Heartland Table'', and the publication of her first cookbook, THE NEW MIDWESTERN TABLE, marks the first time an author’s cookbook and television show have both been produced internally by Random House." Heartland Table is produced by
Random House Studio
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and
Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich (; born February 21, 1947) is an Italian-American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur. Specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine, Bastianich has been a regular contributor to ...
’s Tavola Productions. ''The New Midwestern Table'' is published by
Clarkson Potter
Clarkson Potter (September 19, 1880 – October 4, 1953) was an American golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, un ...
, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, LLC, a Penguin Random House Company.
See also
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List of chefs
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References
External links
Official website
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American television chefs
American women chefs
Women cookbook writers
Macalester College alumni
James Beard Foundation Award winners
21st-century American women
American cookbook writers