Onward & Upward: S2:E12 Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva!

I’m the Founder and President of Book Boosters, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit health education organization, a certified Diabetes Health Outreach Worker, and a Chef and television personality known as THE KITCHEN DIVA!

I’m also an award-winning author of 100 children’s books with 14-million copies of my books sold worldwide in 7-different languages. I’ve been honored at the White House for my work as a children’s author. I’ve also written 7-cookbooks based on American, African, Caribbean, and other ethnic cuisines including THE NEW AFRICAN-AMERICAN KITCHEN; THE KITCHEN DIVA COOKS!; THE ETHNIC VEGETARIAN and THE KITCHEN DIVA’S DIABETIC COOKBOOK. I write a weekly healthy lifestyle Hearst/King-Features column. It’s distributed to 1300 newspapers with 925,000 readers in the U.S. and Canada.

I’ve been a guest Chef on the TODAY show, FOOD NETWORK, DR. OZ and numerous local and national television shows to do healthy cooking demos and interviews about diabetes and my healthy, “Diva-Licious” recipes.

By way of background information, I wasn’t always a good cook, but I began to study diabetes and healthy cooking techniques that preserve non-white cultural recipes when my sweet husband and several family members were all diagnosed with Type II diabetes. I became passionate about the power of food to express love, to connect with all races of people, and to heal.

I taught myself how to create culturally-based, environmentally-friendly, “ethnic” vegetarian recipes–which means mostly vegetarian with small portions of meat, or meat on special occasions, flavorful and medicinal herbs and spices, alternative forms of proteins, and unique sweeteners. It’s a
“Diva-Licious” way to eat throughout the day!