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Heather Arndt Anderson
Heather Arndt Anderson is an award-winning author, food writer, and botanist based in Portland, Oregon. She has conducted botanical field surveys and wetland delineations and has written technical reports for federal and state regulatory agencies.
Heather is the author of four books on culinary history, including Portland: A Food Biography (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She wrote the Pacific Northwest chapter in volume 2 of the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2011). Her recipes have been published in the cookbook One Big Table: 600 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen, Pit-Masters, and Chefs, and Boozy Brunch: The Quintessential Guide to Daytime Drinking. Heather contributes to the magazines Roads & Kingdoms, Taste, Portland Monthly, Render Feminist Food & Culture Quarterly, Narratively, Remedy Quarterly, and Fish & Game Quarterly. She has appeared on "The Splendid Table" and is a regular panelist on the James Beard and IACP award-winning podcast, "The Four Top." Heather runs a test kitchen from her home in Portland, where she develops recipes and content for food brands, teaches cooking and pickling classes, and tests recipes for cookbooks by other authors.
Heather's great-grandparents, Johannes and Elizabeth Arndt, emigrated from Norka, Russia, to Nebraska in 1912. The family later moved West and settled in Portland, Oregon.
Heather is the author of four books on culinary history, including Portland: A Food Biography (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She wrote the Pacific Northwest chapter in volume 2 of the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2011). Her recipes have been published in the cookbook One Big Table: 600 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen, Pit-Masters, and Chefs, and Boozy Brunch: The Quintessential Guide to Daytime Drinking. Heather contributes to the magazines Roads & Kingdoms, Taste, Portland Monthly, Render Feminist Food & Culture Quarterly, Narratively, Remedy Quarterly, and Fish & Game Quarterly. She has appeared on "The Splendid Table" and is a regular panelist on the James Beard and IACP award-winning podcast, "The Four Top." Heather runs a test kitchen from her home in Portland, where she develops recipes and content for food brands, teaches cooking and pickling classes, and tests recipes for cookbooks by other authors.
Heather's great-grandparents, Johannes and Elizabeth Arndt, emigrated from Norka, Russia, to Nebraska in 1912. The family later moved West and settled in Portland, Oregon.
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Last updated December 8, 2023