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The Essential New York Times Cookbook
All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism-a volume to take its place in...

Amanda Hesser

Amanda Hesser has been a food columnist and editor at the New York Times for more than a decade. She is the author of The Essential New York Times Cookbook, the award-winning Cooking for Mr. Latte and The Cook and the Gardener, and editor of the essay collection Eat, Memory. Hesser is also the co-founder of food52.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tad Friend, and their two children.

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Books by Amanda Hesser

  1. Book CoverThe Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside


    The unique, award-winning cookbook—a collection of seasonal recipes from a traditional French garden.More

  2. Book CoverCooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes


    "Tender, wry, passionate, truthful. To read Hesser's prose is to hunger for more."—Nigella LawsonMore

  3. Book CoverEat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table, a Collection of Essays from the New York Times


    “Draws with literary aplomb the correlation of what and how we eat to who we are.”—Austin ChronicleMore

  4. Book CoverThe Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century


    Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award in General Cooking: All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism-a volume to take its place in America's kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything.More