Andrea Chesman

Andrea Chesman is a food writer and author of many cookbooks, including The Garden-Fresh Vegetable Cookbook and Mom’s Best One-Dish Suppers from Storey Publishing. Her book, The Vegetarian Grill (Harvard Common Press) was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Book Award and received a National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence. She is also the author of The Roasted Vegetable (Harvard Common Press) and 366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans and Grains (Plume-Penguin), Summer in a Jar (Williamson Publishing), and Pickles and Relishes (Storey), and co-author of Mom’s Best Desserts (Storey Books) and The Classic Zucchini Cookbook (Storey Books). She was editor of Yankee Magazine Church Supper and Potluck Cookbook (Villard) and editor of and contributer to the Family Circle Good Cook's Book (Simon & Schuster). She also edited numerous gardening books, including The Big Book of Gardening Skills (Storey). Her work has appeared in Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, Organic Gardening, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, The New York Times, and several other magazines and newspapers. She was a contributing editor for Vermont Life for 12 years.

Andrea Chesman lives in an historic farmhouse in Ripton, Vermont, where the poet Robert Frost boarded. She lives with her husband and two sons.