About Chef Gloria B

Author of ZonePerfect Cooking Made Easy and Cooking with Gloria, Gloria Bakst has over 20 years of experience working with and studying nutrition, exercise, and food. Gloria has a Master's degree in Counseling, is a Zone certified instructor, and a ZonePerfect nutritionist. She's also been very active as a resource provider to physicians and health professionals who want to help their patients improve overall health.

Through her own past service, "Go with Glo", Gloria catered delicious meals freshly prepared with a focus on individual needs. Her menus ranged from macrobiotic to heart-healthy, never sacrificing flavor and freshness.

She continues to prepare balanced health meals, customized to her clients needs.

Gloria is a recognized expert in lifestyle nutritional balance. While working for Abbott Labs, at ZonePerfect Nutrition, she advised more than one hundred people daily. Each week from 1998-2004, a quarter-million people followed her Cooking with Gloria's column on the ZonePerfect Web site.

Gloria has created hundreds of recipes and has taught cooking classes for the last 20 years. Her recipes have appeared in the Weight Watcher's Grilling Cookbook, Weight Watchers Meals in Minutes Cookbooks, The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook, and The Healing the Heart Cookbook. Her recipes are fast, easy, delicious, and perfectly geared for today's busy lifestyles. These recipes and Gloria's approach to a balanced lifestyle have been published by McGraw Hill in her book, ZonePerfect Cooking Made Easy. (September 2006)

Chef Gloria B is ServSafe certified as well as SOMWBA certified. She is a member of:

• Diabetes Educators of Eastern Massachusetts (D.E.E.M.)
• International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP)
• Integrative Medicine Alliance (IMA)
• American Personal & Private Chef Association
• North Shore Women in Business
• North Shore Business Forum