Hannah Che

Hannah Che is an American plant-based/vegan chef, cookbook author, and food writer. Her cookbook, The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, won the 2023 James Beard Foundation Award.

Early life and education Che was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, When she was 9, her father's work took them to Shenzhen, China for three years before returning to the United States. She is also a graduate of the Guangzhou Vegetarian Culinary School in China, where she studied vegetarian cooking.

Career Che states that after reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, she "chose to shift to plant-based eating for health, environmental, and ethical reasons." She then began to study "other culinary traditions, like plant-based Thai and Mediterranean cuisine."

She created the recipe blog, "The Plant-Based Wok," and began working in restaurants. She worked as a cook in American Michelin-starred restaurants, was a wok chef at Din Tai Fung, and developed "a vegan Chinese tasting menu pop-up called Surong" in Portland, Oregon. She currently lives in Dali, Yunnan, China. and the Food Network listed it as one of the “10 Best New Vegan Cookbooks” for 2023. VegNews listed it as one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024.

It won the 2023 James Beard Foundation Award 2023 IACP Julia Child First Book Award, Presented By The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts

Cookbook The Vegan Chinese Kitchen. Clarkson Potter, 2022. .