Amanda Hesser is Founder and Co-CEO of Food52, the cooking and home brand including Schoolhouse and Dansk, with a monthly reach of 30 million people. Amanda was a reporter, feature writer, and food editor at The New York Times. She is the author of the award-winning books Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover’s Courtship, with Recipes and The Cook and the Gardener, and she edited Eat, Memory. She is the co-author of three Food52 cookbooks, including A New Way to Dinner, and her The Essential New York Times Cookbook was a New York Times Best Seller. In 2021, Amanda’s updated edition of the compendium was published with 120 new recipes.

Amanda has been named a Woman of Impact by Entrepreneur Magazine and one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Food by Gourmet, played herself in the Nora Ephron film, Julie & Julia, created the Twitter app Plodt, and served on President Obama's Commission on White House Fellowships. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and twins.