Biography
Gesine Bullock-Prado is a renowned pastry chef, television personality, and author of several acclaimed cookbooks and a memoir. Her most recent book, My Harvest Kitchen, was published in October 2025. She is recognized for My Vermont Table, an instant New York Times bestseller. She has authored multiple other books, including Sugar Baby, Let Them Eat Cake, and the memoir Life from Scratch, in which she tells the story of leaving a high-powered Hollywood career to start a new life and business in Vermont.
In addition to her writing, she is known for hosting the Food Network show “Baked in Vermont” and for her work as a baking instructor. At her Hartland Vermont cooking school, Sugar Glider Kitchen, and during online classes, lucky attendees at these sold-out events have the chance to learn about baking, have fun and gain personal insight into all things delicious.
My Harvest Kitchen
In this highly anticipated follow-up to her best-selling cookbook, My Vermont Table, Gesine Bullock-Prado celebrates seasonal homegrown ingredients.
She invites her fans into her kitchen, where the harvest is local. Whether she’s picked the lettuce from her own garden, visited a farmers’ market, or shopped at the local grocery store, her seasonal cooking is accessible to all readers. Delicious recipes share the page with fan-favorite family stories and tips on growing food, understanding the soil, and more, for aspirational (and actual) gardeners. Bullock-Prado once dreamed of homesteading—living off the land, cooking pies with scavenged berries, keeping bees and savoring the honey, and foraging all things wild—but was not wholly successful. Her hybrid approach is on display here, and she encourages readers to be realistic and celebrate fresh ingredients wherever they were grown. From Zucchini Waffles to Pickled Peaches, Green Mountain Carbonara to Key Lime Ice Cream Pie, Peony Jelly to Preserved Lemons, these are dishes to make time and again.