Andrea Chesman

Who is Andrea Chesman?

Andrea Chesman is the author of over twenty cookbooks and the editor of well over a hundred cookbooks and gardening books. The original edition of her cookbook The Vegetarian Grill was a 1999 James Beard Cookbook Award nominee and recipient of a 1999 National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence. Her recipes have also been published in The Best of Food & Wine and The Family Circle Good Cook’s Book, among other anthologies.

Chesman is a contributor to magazines and newspapers, including Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, The New York Times, Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, Organic Gardening, Natural Health, New England Monthly, The Burlington Free Press, Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, Edible Green Mountains and many other publications. She was contributing food editor for Vermont Life magazine for twelve years.

She also teaches and does cooking demonstrations and classes and has appeared at the Mother Earth News Fair, the Heritage Harvest Festival, the Bookmarks Festival of Books, the Boston Flower and Garden Show, the Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show and the Decatur Book Festival.