Hannah Che

Hannah Che is a Chinese-American cook, writer, and photographer. She is the James Beard Award–winning author of The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, which also won an IACP Award and was named one of the best cookbooks of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post and one of The New Yorker’s Fifteen Essential Cookbooks. Born in Michigan, Che received her culinary training at the Guangzhou Vegetarian Culinary School. She is the chef of Surong, a seasonal pop-up informed by the tenets of Chinese medicine and vegetarian cuisine and inspired by her cross-cultural heritage. Hannah resides in Yunnan, China.