Annemarie Colbin, MA, CHES, is a food therapist and leading expert on natural food and healing. She has a master's degree in holistic nutrition and is a certified health education specialist. She is the founder of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School and Institute for Food and Health in New York, where she teaches regularly.
Colbin's work has been featured in The New York Times, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Natural Health, Longevity, and New Age Journal. Colbin has appeared on numerous talk shows, including "Live with Regis and Kathy Lee," "Donahue," and the TV Food Network.
Colbin has been a columnist for Free Spirit since 1988. She is the winner of a National IACP/Seagram Book Award for The Natural Gourmet and the 1993 Avon Women of Enterprise Award.