Alexandra Zissu is a writer, editor, and content consultant. She’s the author of The Conscious Kitchen (Clarkson Potter, March 2010)—a Books for a Better Life Awards finalist—and co-author of The Complete Organic Pregnancy (Collins, September 2006), Planet Home (Clarkson Potter, December 2010), The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat (Clarkson Potter, May 2011), and Get on Top (Atria Books, 2018). Earth Squad (Running Press Kids) is due out March 2021.
As a journalist, she has written extensively about food, chefs, fashion, trends, pregnancy, parenting, and especially green living for many publications including The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Bon Appétit, Health, New York, Cookie, Vogue, Self, Refinery29, Child, Time Out New York, Yahoo! Style, Entrepreneur, and Details. The majority of her consulting work is editorial. Her office directs, manages, advises on, and reviews content for organizations, brands, and other companies to help them translate their environmental and sustainability efforts into language everyone can understand. She has also spoken about all things eco-friendly at private firms, mothers’ groups, schools, non-profits, and industry expos. She is on the board of the Albany-based organization Clean and Healthy New York.
She has been called a “green culinary queen” by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, a “green guru” by New York Family Magazine, and a “green goddess” by DailyCandy. She has appeared twice on The ‘Today’ Show and has also been on Emeril’s Table, Good Day New York, The 10! Show in Philadelphia, as well as Mondays with Marlo, Marlo Thomas’s Huffington Post show. She has been a guest on multiple radio shows, including NPR and Edible Radio. Her books and work have been written up in The New York Times, Civil Eats, Tasting Table, Edible Manhattan, Bon Appétit, Health Magazine, Mother Earth News, Wine Spectator, The San Francisco Chronicle, Detroit News, The Denver Post, The Washington Post, The Indy Star, The Santa Cruz Sentinel, Care2.com, and New York Family Magazine, among others.
A born-and-raised New Yorker, Alexandra now lives in the Hudson Valley with her family to be close to the farms that feed them. She is obsessive about family meal and finds pure magic in growing a small raised bed of peas, lettuces, cucumbers, ground cherries, cherry tomatoes, and herbs with her two girls.