Anna Pump (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 The Hamptons, Loaves & Fishes.
She was the author of four cookbooks and the owner of the Bridgehampton Inn.
Pump was a mentor to Ina Garten, of 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.
She moved to the US with her husband in 1960, where they lived in Frenchtown, New Jersey, before moving to the Hamptons more than a decade later.A resident of Sag Harbor, New York, Pump was killed while crossing to the north side of Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, near the post office, when she was struck by a pickup truck heading west on the evening of October 5, 2015.
She was taken to Southampton Hospital by ambulance, where she succumbed to her injuries.