About Me

Amy S. White has two passions in life: the Latin language and food.

The only Latin major in her graduating class at Boston College, she went on to earn her Master’s at Tulane University and won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the American Academy in Rome for a summer. She has been the only Latin teacher in her school district for the past twenty-five years and counting.

The first thing Amy learned to cook was Kraft Macaroni 'n Cheese. Even back then, she considered the directions on the box to be mere suggestions, and to this day prefers her “secret shame” al dente, boiled for only five minutes and made with extra milk and half the butter. 

From childhood days in Chicopee, Massachusetts (home of the King Kielbasa), to Boston (college), to New Orleans (grad school and her first teaching job), school was priority one, while waiting tables for extra money was a close second. Casual, steakhouse, fine dining, small chains - Amy worked them all, but it was in New Orleans that, thanks to a cook/boyfriend/lover (no, it didn't work out), her interest in food turned into an obsession and she became what is now known as a "foodie." 

Amy started a food blog in 2008 called A Couple in the Kitchen where she documented the culinary adventures she shared with her then-husband, Chris. Several of their original recipes won national contests including one that was featured in an IKEA ad campaign that ran online and in O! The Oprah Magazine.

Cooking, developing recipes, and publishing the blog slowly blossomed into a passion for food writing in general. Amy has attended cooking classes at home and abroad, studied with chef/author Priscilla Martel, and participated in the LongHouse Food Scholars program run by the late Molly O'Neill in the summer of 2017. She wrote for Go Local Magazine for a couple years, and is a regular contributing writer for Seasons Magazines and Connecticut Food and Farm Magazine. Amy won a Connecticut Agricultural Journalism Award for her writing in both 2016 and 2017.

Amy lives, teaches, writes, and eats in eastern Connecticut. She has worked as a line cook at the award-winning Bistro on Main and as a prep cook/pastry assistant at Mulberry, both in Manchester. She is currently working on her first book, a memoir (with recipes!) of the five years she lived in New Orleans.

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