Amy Thielen

Amy Thielen is a contributing writer at Serious Eats.
Location: Park Rapids, Minnesota
Expertise: Recipe Development, Midwestern American Cuisine

Experience

Amy Thielen is the James Beard Award-winning author of The New Midwestern Table (2013) and Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir (2017). She was the host of the James Beard-nominated Heartland Table on Food Network. She writes about food for newspapers and magazines, including Saveur, where she is a contributing editor, and has appeared in many others, including People, Food Network Magazine, Country Living, Reuters, The Boston Globe, Eater National, Esquire, Oprah Magazine, Parade Magazine, and LA Magazine.

She lives in rural Minnesota and can be found most days in the space between the kitchen counter and the stove.

About Serious Eats

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