Amanda Hesser

Amanda Hesser is a founder of food52, a cooking site that’s launching this week. She has been a food columnist and editor at The New York Times for more than a decade. Hesser has written two award-winning books— The Cook and the Gardener and Cooking for Mr. Latte—and edited the recently published collection of food essays Eat, Memory. Her next book will be a compilation of recipes from The New York Times going back to the 1850s. Hesser is also a founder of Plodt.com.