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Skinny Chef Biography

Posted on June 25, 2008 ⋅ Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Bookmark Post

Jennifer Iserloh, the Skinny Chef, believes that the essence of good health springs from your own kitchen. You can eat the foods you love by cooking them the healthy way to satisfy both body and soul. She celebrates delicious, easy to prepare dishes that can be enjoyed for a lifetime, reinventing meals that grandma would be proud to serve.

As a trained chef and author of Secrets of a Skinny Chef (Rodale, 2010), Jennifer has shared her recipes and healthy living tips in print publications such a SELF magazine, Prevention, and First for Women, on radio, and on television on programs like the Today Show, Living Well With Montel, CBS, ABC and NBC. As a certified yoga teacher and former private chef for internationally known celebrities, she continues to teach the secrets to comforting meals made healthier and healthy fare made tastier.

As the recipe developer for Joy Bauer’s Food Cures and Jessica Seinfeld’s cookbook on hidden nutrition entitled Deceptively Delicious, Jennifer continues to guide families toward health, showing them that healthy cooking can be fresh and fun. In 2008, Jennifer appeared as a judge in General Mill’s new baking competition 350F – One Hot Cooking Show that was watched by millions on the Betty Crocker website (bettycrocker.com). On her hugely popular website SkinnyChef.com, she provides resources for anyone who is ready to take small steps towards a healthier life with her deliciously simple recipes, articles, podcasts, and webcasts.

Always in search of knowledge, Jennifer earned a master’s degree in French Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. She spent time traveling throughout Europe and worked in Lugano, Switzerland for a telecom company, but her passion for cooking was ever-present. After relocating to New York City with her husband, Jennifer decided to leave the business world to follow her dream of becoming a chef.

After graduating with honors from the Institute of Culinary Education, (formerly Peter Kump’s) Jennifer was invited to intern with Chef Scott Bryan, chef owner of Veritas restaurant. While there, she met Tyler Florence of the Food Network. Serving again upon invitation, Jennifer interned on Tyler’s cookbook, Eat This Book, where she learned the essentials of food styling and photography. As a dedicated yoga-practitioner for over eight years, Jennifer recently completed her 200-hour teacher’s training at the renowned Dharma Mittra Yoga Center in New York City.

Jennifer received her most formative culinary experience in her granny’s kitchen starting at age eight. Growing up in her grandmother’s house, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she learned in depth cooking techniques, how to use the freshest ingredients, the ups and downs of baking, and most of all, how to cook with love.

Jennifer lives in New Jersey with her husband, Ulrich who shares her passion for food and healthy living.

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