Amy thielen biography

Amy Thielen is a chef, food writer, and television personality who focuses on Midwestern cooking and food culture.

Amy thielen biography

She is the 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 the host of Heartland Table, which debuted in September 2013 on Food Network; season two premiered in March 2014.^[1]

Background and personal life

Thielen grew up in rural northern Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College 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), Jean-Georges Vongerichten (66), Daniel Boulud (DB Bistro Moderne), and Shea Gallante (Cru).^[2] In 2008, she and her family moved from Brooklyn to the countryside near