About Amy Traverso

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Cohosts Amy Traverso and Richard Wiese
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Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine and co-host of the television series Weekends with Yankee, as well as the podcast Talking with My Mouth Full. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category. Traverso lives in the Boston area and is a graduate of Smith College.

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