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Thielen grew up in rural northern Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1997 with a degree in English.
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Amy Thielen
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She is author of the cookbook The New Midwestern Table (Clarkson Potter, 2013) and host of Heartland Table, which debuted September 2013 on Food Network. Season two premiered March, 2014. In 1999, she moved to New York City to attend cooking school and cooked professionally for seven years in the kitchens of chefs David Bouley (Danube, Bouley), Jean-Georges Vongerichten (66), Daniel Boulud (Data Base Bistro Moderne), and Shea Gallante (Cru).
Thielen has written for publications such as Men's Journal and Saveur.
Thielen"s recipes have been featured in Food & Wine Magazine, Parade Magazine, People Magazine and on National Public Radio. Her television show was also nominated for a James Beard Foundation Broadcast and New Media Award in Television Program.
Thielen is married to visual artist Aaron Spangler. According to a Random House press release, "The simultaneous launch of Thielen’s television show, HEARTLAND TABLE and the publication of her first cookbook, THE NEW MIDWESTERN TABLE, marks the first time an author’s cookbook and television show have both been produced internally by Random House." Heartland Table is produced by Random House Studio and Lidia Bastianich’s Tavola Productions.
The New Midwestern Table is published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Limited Liability Company, a Penguin Random House Company.
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