Nina Simonds is an award-winning journalist and author and is one of the country’s leading authorities on Asian cooking. In 2001, Newsweek Magazine named her one of “America’s Top Twenty-Five Asian Hands”. She is the author of ten books on Chinese cuisine and culture, including the best-selling A Spoonful of Ginger and Spices of Life, both of which won both the IACP and the James Beard Foundation Book Award for Health.
Simonds has appeared on television programs throughout the United States including The Today Show and The Martha Stewart Show and has been featured on National Public Radio’s The Diane Rehm Show, Morning Edition and Fresh Air. She was a contributing editor for Gourmet Magazine and was a regular contributor to the New York Times and O Magazine. Simonds’ articles have appeared in Cooking Light, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Health, Harper’s Bazaar, Bon Appetit, Family Circle, and Self Magazine.
Her website with innovative video blogs (www.spicesoflife.com) was launched in February of 2007 and is featured regularly in The Hungry Beast, the food section of The Daily Beast. It has also been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and on the home page of iTunes. SpicesofLife.com has also been selected as a member of the “Prevention Healthy Living Group”, a portfolio of high quality health and wellness websites linked to Prevention.com, the #1 healthy lifestyle brand in the U.S. The main focus of Simonds’ blog is health, wellness, convenience and pleasure.
Presently, she is working on her eleventh book, “Asian Express: Irresistibly Delicious, Healthy, and Convenient Meals for the Busy Cook” which will be published by Rodale Press in 2012.
Courtesy of "Spices of Life" website.