Amanda Cushman is a culinary educator who has cooked professionally for over twenty-five years.

She teaches a wide range of cooking classes in Los Angeles as well as teaching privately for groups of two to twenty students in their home. Chef Cushman teaches hands on and demonstration cooking classes in L.A. that are part of the corporate Wellness program at Guess Jeans Inc. Her clientele for team building cooking parties include; Exxon Mobile, Google, Yahoo, Fitness Magazine, DirecTV and Toyota.

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 she learned her skills in recipe development. This led to her contributing to Cooking Light, Self, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. At this time she was also a private chef for the C.E.O. of American Express and the Editor of GQ magazine.

In the early nineties she began teaching at The Institute of Culinary Education formerly known as Peter Kump's New York Cooking School. While in NYC she also taught the professional series 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. She published her own cookbook in 2008 and it was sold out within the year. It is now on it's second printing is is sold in independent bookstores throughout the L.A. area.

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 in L.A. Amanda lives in Venice, California and teaches cooking on a daily basis. Click here to view Amanda's Los Angeles cooking class schedule.

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