Katya Weiss-Andersson

Katya Weiss-Andersson
Education: Ithaca College

Katya Weiss-Andersson is a cluster writer for The Spruce Eats, and has eight years of experience as a professional chef. Between cooking in cramped kitchens all over the world and developing recipes out of small apartment kitchens with limited budgets and space, Katya has homed in on how to make life easier in the kitchen.

Highlights:

  • Katya has written for The Spruce Eats since March 2022
  • Her work has appeared in Greatist, MissMuslim, Ethel Magazine, GoddessCeremony and she's been interviewed for articles published in Vice, Byline Times and more.
  • Katya completed her undergraduate degree at Ithaca College in 2013

Experience

After working in the restaurant industry and owning a food business, Katya became an independent contractor focusing on recipe development and retreat catering, and began integrating writing and editing contracts into her culinary work. She has cooked in New York, Italy, Palestine, and is now based in Denver, and has been published by Greatist, MissMuslim, GoddessCeremony and more. Katya loves to work on practical culinary content that helps to make cooking less daunting and more do-able.

Favorite Purchase

In my small kitchen with limited counter space, the Gourmia 7 Quart Digital Air Fryer does the work of an oven, a toaster oven, a deep fryer, a microwave and a dehydrator, and it does most of those jobs in less time. Runners up: the Cuisinart Mini-Prep Plus for saving endless amounts of time in mincing garlic, ginger and chillies, and the NutriBullet Pro for high-powered blending that takes up less than half the space of a normal blender

Education

Katya completed a bachelor's degree in education at Ithaca College, and went on to do a sous chef internship under Chef Matt Props in Durham, NC and a stage at Dirt Candy on NYC's Lower East Side.

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About The Spruce Eats

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