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Connecticut Chef Amanda Cushman offers catering, personal chef services, and teaches cooking classes in Connecticut and Southern California.
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Amanda Cushman

Amanda Cushman is a culinary educator who has cooked
professionally for twenty-five years. She teaches privately for
groups of two to twenty students in their home as well as in
venues around Connecticut such as Sur Connecticut Table,
Williams-Sonoma and Chefâ€™s Inc. She teaches corporate classes
that are part of a Wellness program at Guess Jeans Inc. as
well as team building events at the Glendale Police
Department, Orange County Fire Department and various
corporations around Southern California.

Her career in food began in catering over twenty five years ago
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 Connecticutdies Home Journal where
she cooked for over two years. Her next stint was at Food and
Wine where she began her career 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 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 Connecticutst few 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.