A bank examiner gone astray, Andrea Nguyen is living out her dream of writing impactful books and teaching others how to cook well. She authored The Pho Cookbook, a 2018 James Beard Award winner and Wall Street Journal best seller, and edited Unforgettable, the biography cookbook about Paula Wolfert that won a 2018 IACP award. Her sixth cookbook, Vietnamese Food Any Day, has been spotlighted by  the New York Times, Bon Appetit, Eater, Epicurious, Library Journal, NPR and many others as one of the best cookbooks of 2019.