Anna Pump (born Anna Heitweg Tuitjer; April 11, 1934 – October 5, 2015) was a German-born American chef, cookbook author, baker, and innkeeper best known for her bakery and gourmet takeout shop in

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, ''Loaves & Fishes''. She was the author of four cookbooks and the owner of the Bridgehampton Inn. Pump was a mentor to

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, who wrote the foreword to Pump's final cookbook ''Summer on a Plate''. She was sometimes a guest on Garten's ''

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''. Pump was born on a farm in

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'', October 9, 2015. Accessed October 10, 2015. She moved to the US with her husband, Detlef Pump and both children, Harm and Sybille in 1960, where they lived in

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, before moving to the Hamptons more than a decade later. A resident of

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, Pump died in Bridgehampton on October 5, 2015, at age 81, when she was struck by a pickup truck driver who failed to yield at a crossing.

Bibliography

*''The Loaves and Fishes Cookbook'' (1987) *''The Loaves and Fishes Party Cookbook'' (1990) *''Country Weekend Entertaining'' (1999) *''Summer on a Plate'' (2008)

References

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