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Amanda Hesser is one of the most popular and richest Non-Fiction Author who was born on December 31, 1971 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States. Food writer most famous for her work with The New York Times, where she served as the food editor. She is also the author of the cookbook The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century (2010).

She appeared as herself in the film Julie & Julia (2009), starring Meryl Streep.

After finishing her first book, in 1997, Hesser was hired as a food reporter for The New York Times where she wrote more than 750 stories. While at the Times Hesser wrote about the influence of Costco on the wine industry, and how the Farmer Consumer Advisory Committee made decisions for the New York City Greenmarket. She was also among the first to write about Ferran Adria of El Bulli in a major American publication.

Hesser was involved in two cases of conflict of interest while working at the Times. In 2004, she awarded the restaurant Spice Market a three-star rating without disclosing that the year before, the restaurant’s owner, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, had provided a complimentary jacket blurb for her book Cooking for Mr. Latte. In 2007, Hesser published a favorable review of Vegetable Harvest by Patricia Wells, without noting that in 1999, Wells had provided a jacket blurb for Hesser’s book The Cook and the Gardener. In both cases, the Times subsequently pointed out the conflicts of interest with editors’ notes.

She married and had children with fellow New York Times writer Tad Friend.

Name Amanda Hesser
First Name Amanda
Last Name Hesser
Occupation Non-Fiction Author
Birthday December 31
Birth Year 1971
Place of Birth Doylestown
Home Town Pennsylvania
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Capricorn
Full/Birth Name
Father Not Available
Mother Not Available
Siblings Not Available
Spouse Not Known
Children(s) Not Available

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As co-founder and CEO of Food52 she has raised two rounds of investment from parties including Lerer Hippeau Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Food52 has won numerous notable awards including the James Beard Award for Publication of the Year (2012) and the IACP Award for Best Website (2013). In February 2017, noting that 92 percent of the company was white, she and her co-founder Merrill Stubbs “issued a statement about the ways in which the company intended to redress a lack of racial equality in its workplace.” By the following January, “they published a follow-up letter updating readers on the progress of their efforts, stating that their staff had been reduced to being 76 percent white.”

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