ANDREA Z. DEANE, MALS ’98

ANDREA Z. DEANE, a freelance food stylist and the chef at the president’s house at Wesleyan for 10 years, died Feb. 2, 2014. She was 55. A graduate of the University of Vermont, she received an MALS in 1998. She studied cooking at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, apprenticed at The Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, and was associate food editor at Weight Watchers magazine. She went on to a successful career as a freelance food stylist with her work featured in several cookbooks as well as for Bon Appétit, Cuisine, and Parade magazines, before moving to Haddam, Conn., in 1986, to raise a family. At the Wesleyan president’s house she oversaw all official catering functions for three presidents. Since 1999 she focused on her fine art painting career and had several successful exhibitions. Among those who survive are her husband, Eric Deane, two children, her mother, four siblings, and an extended family.