Maggie Zhu
Maggie Zhu shares Chinese home cooking through Omnivore’s Cookbook, writes cookbooks and teaches as an editor in residence at America’s Test Kitchen.
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Omnivore’s CookbookOverview
- From
- Beijing, China
- Based in
- New York City
- Started
- Omnivore’s Cookbook, 2013
- Recognition
- 2019 SAVEUR Blog Awards, Editors’ Choice for Weeknight Dinners
- Work
- Recipe developer, cookbook author and food photographer
Mini bio
How it started.
Raised in Beijing, Maggie began cooking for herself after moving to Japan in 2007. Japanese cookbooks helped shape her precise approach to recipes. She started Omnivore’s Cookbook in 2013 while working a corporate job, then made it her full-time work after moving to the United States in 2015.
Finding her audience.
Her recipes bring Chinese home cooking to readers’ own kitchens. In 2019, Omnivore’s Cookbook won SAVEUR’s Editors’ Choice award for Weeknight Dinners and was also a Photography finalist.
From blog to book and test kitchen.
Chinese Homestyle gathers 90 plant-based recipes, drawing on Northern Chinese comfort food and takeout favorites. In 2025, Maggie joined America’s Test Kitchen’s inaugural creator residency to develop recipes and make cooking content with its team.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
Food media
- 2025America’s Test Kitchen creator residencyEditor in residence
- 2013Omnivore’s CookbookFounder, recipe developer and photographer
Awards
Quotes
My culinary adventure began in 2007 in Japan out of necessity.Maggie Zhu, Omnivore’s Cookbook
Looking back on learning to cook while living in Japan.
Trivia
- She lives with three cats.
- She still collects and cooks from Japanese cookbooks.
- Her family eats boiled dumplings together on Lunar New Year’s Eve.
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