Episode 11: Celebrity Chef Amanda Freitag on Her Fear of Cooking at Home

The Cedar Grove native, a judge on Chopped and co-host of American Diner Revival, talks about her new cookbook, which she wrote to help home cooks overcome she same jitters she felt.

By New Jersey Monthly | March 15, 2016

In a swarming restaurant kitchen, Amanda Freitag is always comfortable and in command. But in the tiny kitchen of her Manhattan apartment, she used to break into a sweat—until she figured out three basic principles, which she lays out in her first cookbook, The Chef Next Door, and talks about in this episode.