Anne Byrn | |
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| Byrn at the 2024 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | |
| Education | University of Georgia [3] |
| Culinary career | |
| Cooking style | Southern cuisine |
| Website | AnneByrn.com |
Anne Byrn is an American cookbook author and the former food editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Tennessean . [3]
Byrn is a fifth-generation Tennessean. [4] She graduated from Harpeth Hall School in Nashville in 1974 and the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism in 1978, and is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi Women's Fraternity at Georgia. She spent 15 years as the food editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Later, she studied cooking at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in Paris. [5] Byrn also received instruction from Julia Child, Marcella Hazan and other chefs. [3]
By 2013, Byrn had sold over 3.5 million copies of her cookbooks. [6] [7]