Amanda Cohen

Amanda Cohen is the chef and owner of Dirt Candy restaurant in New York City. Although she specializes in vegetarian cuisine, she herself is not a vegetarian (although she used to be). She graduated from the Natural Gourmet Cookery School and went on to work at (among other restaurants) Angelica's Kitchen, Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill, and Blanche’s Organic Café. In 2008, she opened Dirt Candy.In 2012, she published the Dirt Candy Cookbook.In 2018, she was profiled in Maya Gallus's documentary film The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution.