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Jamie Vespa

Jamie Vespa is the registered dietitian and recipe creator behind Dishing Out Health, sharing vegetable-filled dinners, cozy soups and practical recipes for everyday cooking.

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Jamie’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus her backstory and Starbook, where fans write.

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Overview

Known as: Dishing Out Health
Work: Registered dietitian, recipe developer and food journalist
Education: Florida State University: B.S. Dietetics (2010), M.S. Clinical Nutrition (2012)
Roots: Grew up in the Tampa area
Earlier career: Clinical nutrition and Cooking Light magazine

Mini bio

How it started.

Jamie’s path into food publishing began with nutrition: she studied at Florida State University and worked with organ transplant recipients as a clinical nutrition specialist in Tampa. She later became Assistant Nutrition Editor at Cooking Light in Birmingham.

Finding her audience.

Dishing Out Health became her home for approachable recipes with plenty of plants. By 2018, Forbes was interviewing her about making healthy cooking less intimidating. In 2023, Good Morning America Food featured her sheet pan salmon with potatoes and caper chimichurri.

What fans come back for.

Her recipe library makes room for vegetarian meals, seafood, quick dinners and sweets. Black Pepper Tofu has been a reader favorite since 2018; her About page also singles out White Bean and Lemon Soup and Salmon Sushi Bowls as personal favorites.

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Recipes and collaborations

2026Sheet Pan Gnocchi with Sausage and Whipped RicottaRecipe creator; sponsored by DeLallo
2023Sheet pan spiced salmon with potatoes and caper chimichurriRecipe featured by Good Morning America Food

Food publishing

2018Cooking LightAssistant Nutrition Editor, documented in her Forbes interview

Quotes

My philosophy is that eating healthy should be rewarding, uncomplicated, and most importantly, delicious.Jamie Vespa, Dishing Out Health

Jamie describes the approach behind her recipes on her About page.

Trivia

Black Pepper Tofu was the first tofu recipe she cooked for her now-husband when they began dating.
In her 2018 Forbes interview, she described keeping dark chocolate almonds and nut butter at her desk.
She says she tested her sweet potato brownies seven times to get their fudgy texture right.