# Anna Pump

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**Anna Pump** (born **Anna Heitweg Tuitjer**; April 11, 1934 – October 5, 2015)[1] was a German-born American chef, cookbook author, baker, and innkeeper best known for her bakery and gourmet takeout shop in [The Hamptons](/source/The_Hamptons), *Loaves & Fishes*.[2] She was the author of four cookbooks and the owner of the Bridgehampton Inn. Pump was a mentor to [Ina Garten](/source/Ina_Garten), of [Food Network](/source/Food_Network), who wrote the foreword to Pump's final cookbook *Summer on a Plate*. She was sometimes a guest on Garten's *[Barefoot Contessa](/source/Barefoot_Contessa)*.

Pump was born on a farm in [Tarp, Germany](/source/Tarp,_Germany).[1] She moved to the US with her husband, Detlef Pump and both children, Harm and Sybille in 1960, where they lived in [Frenchtown, New Jersey](/source/Frenchtown,_New_Jersey), before moving to the Hamptons more than a decade later.[1]

A resident of [Sag Harbor, New York](/source/Sag_Harbor,_New_York), Pump died in [Bridgehampton](/source/Bridgehampton,_New_York) on October 5, 2015, at age 81, when she was struck by a pickup truck driver who failed to yield at a crossing.[3]

## Bibliography

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

## References

1. Weber, Bruce. ["Anna Pump, Chef and Author Famed for Hamptons Store, Dies at 81"](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/nyregion/anna-pump-chef-and-founder-of-loaves-fishes-dies-at-81.html), *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*, October 9, 2015. Accessed October 10, 2015.

1. Sally Spanburgh (Summer 2010). ["Anna Pump: In Love with the Hamptons"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120322030706/http://bridgehamptonhistoricalsociety.org/TheBridge2010.pdf). *The Bridge 2010*. BRIDGEHAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Archived from [the original](http://bridgehamptonhistoricalsociety.org/TheBridge2010.pdf) on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2011-09-26.

1. Melillo, Alyssa (October 5, 2015). ["UPDATE: Pedestrian Killed In Bridgehampton Accident Identified As Anna Pump; Police Identify Driver"](https://www.27east.com/southampton-press/southampton-police/update-pedestrian-killed-in-bridgehampton-accident-identified-as-anna-pump-police-identify-driver-1588018/). *The Southampton Press*

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