Amanda Cushman is a culinary educator who has cooked professionally for over twenty-five years. She teaches privately for groups of two to twenty students in their home as well as in venues around Los Angeles such as Sur La Table, The Magical Kitchen, Williams-Sonoma and Chefmakers.
Amanda also teaches hands on and demonstration cooking classes that are part of a Wellness program at Guess Jeans Inc. She has recently worked with Google, Yahoo, Fitness Magazine and Toyota on team building and cooking events.

Her career in food began in Manhattan where she worked with some of the top NYC caterers: Glorious Food, Panhandlers and Martha Stewart Catering. She became the lead chef for Panhandlers Catering where she cooked for parties of twenty to three hundred people. She then began testing recipes at Ladies Home Journal where she worked for over two years. Her next stint was at Food and Wine Magazine where developed her skills in recipe development. This led to her contributing to Cooking Light, Self, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. She was a private chef for the C.E.O. of American Express and the Editor of GQ magazine for many years
before teaching at The Institute of Culinary Education formerly known as Peter Kump's New York Cooking School. While in NYC she also taught at the Natural Gourmet Cooking School and The New School-Culinary Arts Program.

Chef Cushman moved to Miami Beach in the mid nineties where she was featured on Deco Drive for her private hands-on cooking classes. She had the cover story in the food section of the Miami Herald for these classes as well as her private classes being featured as the best new trend in Florida Trend Magazine. She has developed hundreds of recipes for cookbooks as well as food magazines and web sites. Some of her accounts have been Foodfit.com , Minutemeals.com and the Time/Life Fitness Series.

Chef Cushman has done a number of television appearances in the last three years. New York One, Before and Afternoon Movie, Ten Years Younger and Blind Date all have featured her private cooking classes.

Amanda lives in Venice, California.

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