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New Stuff

Completely beautifully revised edition of Feeding the Young Athlete due to arrive late spring.  Pre-order here! Only ten bucks and change.

Cooking Outside the Box video series for Full Circle Farms are coming up like spring greens. There are several posted (click here) with more coming!  Chris Cashman directed and edited.  The videos are quite beautiful.

The Bio
In an odd reversal, I bankrolled going back to school to become a Certified Health and Nutrition Counselor with money earned acting.   I spent many years in NYC performing in dozens of national commercials, studying with Uta Hagen and continuing work on stage in regional theater and showcases. The professional acting during the day paid the tuition for three year nutrition program at night. Pretty funny.

After moving to Seattle, the TV, radio and theater work continued while I wrote my first cookbook, and began teaching nutrition and cooking classes at Bastyr University.  Currently I am an assistant professor for Bastyr University's School of Nutrition and Exercise Science (faculty member since 1994) and the Culinary Curriculum Director for their new Culinary Arts degree program. 

My cookbook, Feeding the Whole Family (Sasquatch Books, 2008) is in its third edition and over 77,000 copies have been sold.  A fully revised good-looking edition of my second book, Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players, Parents and Coaches, will be released this summer.  Yee haw.

I finally morphed the acting, the cooking and the nutrition together in 2008 with the birth of the online cooking show Cookus Interruptus.  In over 160 videos, me and my colleagues from The Edge Improv group twist healthy cooking instruction and the family sit-com genre into educational entertainment. Watch at  www.cookusinterruptus.com.

In 2010 I was lucky to be hired by the Auburn School District grant to develop the curriculum for an 8-hour workshop to train school food service workers in the how and why of whole foods cooking.  The workshops were are part of the CDC's Communities Putting Prevention to Work(CPPW) program.  To watch a mini-documentary  about this project click here.

It drives me nuts that we don't feed our children better and this irritation drives most of what I do with my life.  That and the belief the everything is better with a little humor added.