Best to the Nest is our podcast all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly. Amy Thielen is here! Yay! She is a chef, a TV cook, and a two-time James Beard Award-winning writer. She’s the author of The New Midwestern Table (a cookbook) and Give a Girl a Knife (a memoir). After ten years cooking in New York City restaurants, Amy returned to Northern Minnesota with her artist husband Aaron to a rural Park Rapids home that he built. She writes, cooks and gardens -- and is at home in the kitchen.