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Name
  
Amy Thielen

Role
  
Chef


Spouse
  
TV shows
  
Heartland Table


Books
  
The New Midwestern Table: 200 Heartland Recipes, New Midwestern Table, The: 200 Heartland Recipes

Awards
  
James Beard Award for American Cooking, James Beard Award for Cooking, Recipes, or Instruction

Nominations
  
James Beard Award for Television Program, In Studio or Fixed Location

Profiles

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Amy Thielen is a chef, food writer, and television personality who focuses on Midwestern cooking and food culture. She is author of the James Beard award-winning cookbook The New Midwestern Table (Clarkson Potter, 2013) ISBN 978-0307954879 and Give a Girl a Knife (Clarkson Potter, 2017) ISBN 978-0307954909. She was also host of Heartland Table, which debuted September 2013 on Food Network; season two premiered March, 2014.

Contents

Chef Sean Sherman and Author Amy Thielen on Food, Traditions, and Place


Background and personal life

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Thielen grew up in rural northern Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN 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), Jean-Georges Vongerichten (66), Daniel Boulud (DB Bistro Moderne), and Shea Gallante (Cru). In 2008, she and her husband and young son moved from Brooklyn to the countryside near their hometown. Thielen has written for publications such as Men’s Journal and Saveur. Her articles in the Minneapolis Star Tribune won her a James Beard Foundation Award for journalism in 2011. Thielen's recipes have been featured in Food & Wine Magazine, Parade Magazine, People Magazine and on National Public Radio. 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 and Lidia Bastianich’s Tavola Productions. The New Midwestern Table is published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, LLC, a Penguin Random House Company.


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References

Amy Thielen Wikipedia


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