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Anna Thomas Bates

Anna Thomas Bates

location-pin Verona, WI

School: Brown University

Expertise: Cooking Techniques; Recipe Development

Anna Thomas Bates

  • More than 10 years as a food writer and recipe developer for brands like Taste of Home, Serious Eats and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • Blogger at Tallgrass Kitchen
  • Co-owner of Landmark Creamery, a small cheese company
  • Winner of awards at four consecutive Grilled Cheese Championship contests in Wisconsin

Experience

A lifelong Midwesterner and lover of all things food and agriculture, Anna ties in all her interests as a writer and business co-owner. You’ll find her freelance bylines at Taste of Home, Serious Eats and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. When she’s not developing recipes or writing, she’s running her company, Landmark Creamery, with her business partner. The small cheese company aligns well with Anna’s love of local food—she gets to work with family-run dairies to aid a sustainable local economy in her hometown. Before opening her business, she wrote a weekly cooking column under the same name as her food blog, Tallgrass Kitchen.

Education

Brown University, bachelor's in environmental studies

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Articles & Recipes

Taste of Home Cream of Vegetable Soup photo of the finished recipe.

Cream of Vegetable Soup

It's easy to get in your five-a-day when you have a cream of vegetable soup recipe that's as straightforward as this: saute, blend and enjoy! You can also easily adapt the recipe with your veggies of choice.
A baking dish of Buffalo mac and cheese topped with panko, blue cheese, and green onions, a recipe from Taste of Home.

Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese

Perk up your classic creamy mac and cheese with an upgrade: Buffalo chicken mac and cheese. Hot sauce is mixed right into the cheese, so there's some spice in every bite.
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Chicken Alfredo Casserole

If your fantasy dinner involves pasta smothered in a creamy, garlic-spiked sauce that is made in a single dish and ready in under 40 minutes, this creamy alfredo chicken casserole is for you.