Ruth Glick is the author or co-author of fifteen cookbooks. Her first cookbook, DON'T TELL 'EM IT'S GOOD FOR 'EM, published in 1984, was a Tastemaker Award finalist in the Nutrition category. The first edition of THE DIABETES SNACK, MUNCH, NIBBLE, NOSH BOOK, published by the American Diabetes Association, won The Bronze Award of the National Health Information Resource Center, and the third edition of the book is still in print. ONE-POT MEALS FOR PEOPLE WITH DIABETES, also published by the American Diabetes Association, now in its second edition, has been in print since 2002. FABULOUS LO-CARB CUISINE was a finalist for the Excellence in Independent Publishing Award of the MidAtlantic Publishers Association.
Ruth admits that her first culinary adventure was a spectacular failure. At the age of three, she made a cake out of modeling clay and asked a friend to share it with her. They were both sick for a week. The early misadventure failed to dampen her culinary enthusiasm. By the age of eight she had mastered the skill of doctoring canned soup with herbs and spices. Then she got serious in the kitchen when her mother went to graduate school, and she was given the assignment of getting dinner on the table several nights a week.
When she married, she dazzled her new husband by making 40 different main dishes before repeating herself. The only failure was deviled crab. Because she had no cayenne pepper, she tried to compensate by using double the amount of black pepper. Her husband ate it anyway.
Ruth's skill in combining delicious recipes with an innovative, health-conscious approach to cooking was showcased in 100% PLEASURE, written with Nancy Baggett (Rodale Press). With almost 150,000 copies in print, it was named as one of the 12 best cookbooks of 1994 by USA Today.
Ruth is the former food editor of the Columbia Flier and was a health/nutrition columnist for Essence Magazine for four years. Her recipes have appeared in Family Circle, Mademoiselle, Weight Watchers, Shape, Essence Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun.
Ruth has done numerous TV/radio interviews and cooking demonstrations and is profiled in Contemporary Authors, Who's Who of American Women, and Who's Who in America. Writing as Rebecca York, Ruth is also an award-winning novelist. She holds a B. A. in American Thought and Civilization from The George Washington University and an M. A. in American Studies from The University of Maryland.
