Andrea Nguyen

A culinary bridge builder and leading authority on Asian food, ANDREA NGUYEN was born in Vietnam and came to the United States at the age of six as a refugee. She has authored six acclaimed cookbooks, including "The Pho Cookbook", a James Beard Foundation award winner. Epicurious named her one of the 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time. A former Saveur contributing editor and Cooking Light columnist, Andrea holds a master’s degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She has written articles and developed recipes for Food & Wine, EatingWell, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times. Andrea lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she does most of her writing, teaching, and podcasting. Ever-Green Vietnamese is her seventh cookbook. Visit her website at vietworldkitchen.com, Twitter @aqnguyen, and Instagram @andreanguyen88. Subscribe to her newsletter at: https://andreanguyen.substack.com Cookbooks by Andrea Nguyen: - "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen" (2006), triple finalist for James Beard and International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) cookbook awards - "Asian Dumplings" (2009), selected in 2012 by Cooking Light as one of the Best 100 Cookbooks of the Past 25 Years - "Asian Tofu" (2012), IACP cookbook award finalist - "The Banh Mi Handbook" (2014), among National Public Radio's best cookbooks of the year - "The Pho Cookbook" (2017), 2018 James Beard Foundation Award of Excellence winner, IACP finalist, NPR best single subject books. - "Vietnamese Food Any Day" (2019), IACP finalist, one of the best cookbooks of the year per NPR, Bon Appetit, Washington Post, and New York Times - "Ever-Green Vietnamese" (2023) Regardless of topic, Andrea unlocks the cuisines of Asia for home cooks to explore, master, and savor.