Nagi Maehashi is an Australian author, cook and business owner. She created the website RecipeTin Eats and the not-for-profit organization RecipeTin Meals, and is the author of the bestselling cookbook RecipeTin Eats Dinner.

Maehashi was born in Japan and grew up in Sydney, Australia.^[1]

She attended North Sydney Girls High School and completed a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Technology Sydney. She worked in corporate finance, including in roles at PwC and Brookfield Multiplex, before launching her cooking blog in May 2014.^[2]

Maehashi's first book, RecipeTin Eats Dinner, was published in 2022 by Pan Macmillan Australia. As of January 2024 it had sold over 250,000 copies in Australia.^[3] It was the bestselling book in Australia in 2023 and was the highest-selling title by a debut Australian author in its first week of release. It won the Australian Book Industry’s Book of the Year Award in 2023.^[4] As of 2023, the RecipeTin Eats website was receiving over 14 million visitors per week.^[4]

Maehashi's second book, Tonight, was published by Pan Macmillan Australia in October 2024.^[5] In its first week of release, it broke the Australian record for the highest first-week sales of a nonfiction book since Bookscan Australia records began in 2002.^[6]

Maehashi is also a frequent contributor to Good Food, the food blog of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.^[7]

Maehashi's Golden Retriever, Dozer, features at the end of each RecipeTin Eats recipe and has built his own online following.^[8][4]

During Australia’s COVID-19 lockdowns, Maehashi created and contributed to a GoFundMe page to fund meals for healthcare workers.^[2] In 2021 she created RecipeTin Meals, providing meals to people in need.^[1] As of 2023, RecipeTin Meals was distributing up to 500 meals per day.^[4]

Reflecting the popularity of RecipeTin Eats, in 2024 the Australian satirical website The Betoota Advocate published a mock news story with the headline “Entire Nation Seemingly Unable to Cook Without Consulting RecipeTin Eats”.^[9]