Amy Thielen

If you’ve watched the Food Network lately, you might have seen Amy Thielen’s new series, “Heartland Table.” Or perhaps you’ve seen her gorgeous new cookbook, “The New Midwestern Table.”

Chef, writer, and television host Amy Thielen will visit the Pierz Public Library on Wednesday, July 16 at 4:00 p.m. Thielen is writer of "The New Midwestern Table" and the host of "Heartland Table" on the Food Nework. She will sign her cookbooks and answer questions about her book and show.

In the first episode of Amy Thielen’s new Food Network show, “Heartland Table,” the Park Rapids, Minn., native melts a golden disk of local butter into a skillet and confidently tells the viewer, “It really is the fat of our land.”

"Butter is kind of like the currency of the Midwest," Amy Thielen muses as she unwraps and slices up a roll of that sunshine yellow money, fresh from a creamery in Westby, Wisconsin.

At the heart of that trend is chef Amy Thielen, author of the cookbook "The New Midwestern Table" and host of the new Food Network show "Heartland Table," which she films in her Park Rapids, Minn., kitchen.