Amy Chaplin

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Amy Chaplin
Born1974 or 1975 (age 50–51)
New South Wales, Australia
Culinary career
Cooking styleVegetarian
Awards won

Amy Chaplin is an Australian American chef, recipe developer and cookbook writer. Her first cookbook, At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen, was a 2015 James Beard Award winner. Her Whole Food Cooking Every Day was a 2020 James Beard Award winner.

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Early life

Chaplin was born and raised in New South Wales, Australia, where she grew up in a mudbrick home on a farm near Dundurrabin, a small town between Dorrigo and Grafton in the New England region. [1] [2] [3] [4] She told an interviewer "There were no shops within a 50-km radius of where we lived." The family grew their own produce and raised chickens, and her mother made tofu and her father baked sourdough bread. [5] [6]

Career

Chaplin worked in a cafe in Sydney and in the 1990s as a pastry chef in Amsterdam. [7] [8] [3] She moved to London in 1995 and then to New York in 1999. [7] [9] [10] In 2003 she began working at Angelica Kitchen, a vegan restaurant in Manhattan, three days a week as a pastry chef and became executive chef about a year later. She left Angelica Kitchen in 2010. [11] [1] [8]

Chaplin had planned to open a restaurant in Tribeca in the spring of 2020, but plans were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]

Chaplin also has worked as a private and consultant chef; clients have included Natalie Portman, Liv Tyler, and Anna Deavere Smith. [7] [6] [12]

Reception

The New York Times called Chaplin's approach to vegetarian cooking "deeply thoughtful". [13] The Washington Post's Joe Yonan wrote, "Some cookbook authors have earned my complete trust, and Amy Chaplin is one of them." [12]

Chaplin's first cookbook, At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen, was a 2015 James Beard Award winner. [14] The Times called it "a sneaker" because it "arrived quietly from a small press, then won a James Beard Award". [13]

Her Whole Food Cooking Every Day was a 2020 James Beard Award winner. [15] Epicurious called it "the ideal building block book for anyone with dietary restrictions". [16] Bon Appétit listed it as one of their best fall cookbooks of 2019. [17] Vogue named it to their list of cookbooks everyone should own. [18]

Personal life

As of 2014 Chaplin was living in Manhattan's East Village. [7] As of 2019 she was dividing her time between Brooklyn and upstate New York. [2] As of 2020 Chaplin lived in the Hudson Valley of New York. [1] She has a son. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Molvar, Kari (2020-11-03). "A Vegetarian Chef's Flavor-Packed Quarantine Snack". New York Times . Archived from the original on 2022-11-25. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  2. 1 2 "Holiday Entertaining: Miso Tomatoes & Eggplant · Organic Spa Magazine". Organic Spa Magazine . 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  3. 1 2 Scott, Georgina (Autumn 2016). "Whole Food Delights". New England Home & Lifestyle.
  4. ↑ Urankar, Chris (August 2015). "Homegrown Hero". InStyle .
  5. ↑ Styles, Camille (2020-10-07). "How Plant-Based Chef Amy Chaplin Makes Every Day Delicious". Camille Styles . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  6. 1 2 "On The Art Of Eating Well: In The Kitchen with Chef Amy Chaplin". The Chalkboard . 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Cooperman, Jackie (2014-10-24). "A Visit to the Kitchen of Amy Chaplin, Vegetarian Chef and Cookbook Author". Wall Street Journal . ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  8. 1 2 Francis, Ali (2017-04-07). "Angelica Kitchen Says Goodbye To All That". Bon Appétit . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  9. ↑ Harrad, Lindsey. "From Market to Table". Vegetarian Living .
  10. ↑ Le, Anh Minh. "A Fresh Outlook". Anthology Magazine .
  11. ↑ Jampel, Sarah (2020-01-31). "The Cookbook That Makes Healthy Eating Look Amazing". Bon Appétit . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  12. 1 2 Yonan, Joe (2019-09-09). "This genius sauce turns your pasta into a seasonal stunner — no matter the season". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  13. 1 2 Muhlke, Christine (2019-11-26). "A Season's New Cookbooks Highlight Global Home Cooking". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  14. ↑ Galarza, Daniela (2015-04-25). "Here Are the James Beard Foundation Book, Broadcast, and Journalism Winners 2015". Eater . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  15. ↑ Alexander, Erin (28 May 2020). "13 James Beard Award-Winning Books to Add to Your Library". Food52 .
  16. ↑ Joseph, Lauren (2021-06-09). "4 Great Cookbooks for Grain-Free Cooking Inspiration". Epicurious . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  17. ↑ Appétit, Bon (2019-08-13). "The Fall Cookbooks We've Been Waiting All Summer For". Bon Appétit . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  18. ↑ Maitland, Hayley (2021-07-05). "41 Cookbooks That Everyone Should Own". Vogue . Retrieved 2026-01-12.
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