What’s On Hand :: Amy Chaplin

Fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. This is especially true in the case of vegetarian chef, blogger and cookbook author, Amy Chaplin. As a young girl growing up in rural Australia, she enjoyed fresh vegetables straight from her family’s garden while learning the joys of cooking alongside her mother. “My Mother loved hosting large parties and frequent dinners,” says Amy. “Helping her was really the beginning of my career in food.” At 16, Amy started working in restaurants as a way to fund her travels but it quickly became the focus of all her creative attention. After stints in Amsterdam and London, she settled down in New York where she now lives in her East Village apartment with her partner, writer Jacqui Kravetz, and their three (!) dogs. (Percy the whippet and loyal kitchen companion is shown below.) Last year she published her first book, At Home in the Whole Foods Kitchen, ...read the rest of the story here