Meredith Laurence

As the Blue Jean Chef, Meredith’s belief is that being confident and comfortable in the kitchen is key to successful and enjoyable cooking. How comfortable? Well, as comfortable as you would be in your blue jeans, relaxing with friends.

Meredith Laurence was born in Ontario Canada and attended the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont. She has worked in numerous capacities and settings in the food world - as a line cook in France and the USA, a culinary instructor, a test kitchen manager in California, a food consultant and a kitchen product consultant. She is known as the Blue Jean Chef® on live television doing on air cooking demonstrations on QVC, giving customers advice on cooking and equipping their kitchens, and writes and appears in the Youtube series called "The Basics".

Meredith is the author of seven cookbooks, including a basic cookbook called "Blue Jean Chef: Comfortable in the Kitchen", three pressure cooker cookbooks, two air fryer cookbooks, a book on sous vide cooking and an all inclusive one pot cookbook called "One Pot Comfort".

In total, Meredith has sold over one million cookbooks and has been in Publisher's Weekly's annual best selling cookbook list in several years. With air frying as popular as ever in the cooking world, Meredith is the leader in the field and Air Fry Genius shows off all the genius tips and tricks that Meredith has discovered with this fascinating kitchen appliance.

Meredith's most recent cookbook, One Pot Comfort, takes old and new comfort foods to the next level, providing options to cook your favorite meals on the stovetop, in the oven, or in a pressure cooker, Instant Pot®, multi cooker, slow cooker or air fryer.