Amy Chaplin

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

Amy Chaplin is an Australian American vegetarian and vegan 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]

Accolades

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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