Amy Chaplin
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Amy Chaplin | |
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| Born | 1974 or 1975 (age 50–51) New South Wales, Australia |
| Culinary career | |
| Cooking style | Vegetarian & Vegan |
Awards won
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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.
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]
- Whole Food Cooking Every Day: Transform the Way You Eat with 250 Vegetarian Recipes Free of Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar. Artisan, 2019.
- At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the Art of Eating Well. Roost Books, 2014.
