Edy Henderson loves cooking, especially preparing holiday feasts for her family and friends. She has researched nutrition and individual food sensitivites and their affect upon health. She has learned to adapt recipes to the special dietary needs of her family. Her daughter is vegan, her grandchild has a severe nut allergy, and she herself has been a vegetarian for many years. She loves sharing good food with friends and family and incorporating their feedback into her original recipes.

She enjoys traveing and experiencing tastes from other cultures, and has incorporated dishes from many places that she has visited into her collection of recipes: tastes from Latin America, Asia, and the Mediterranean countries of Europe.

Edy's own path to becomming vegetarian resulted from her personal battle with cancer, prompting her to research healthy life styles. After learning that the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association both recommend large amounts of fruits and vegetables as part of a low fat diet, she tried increasing fruit and vegetables and eliminating meat. This diet helped her to feel better and to keep healthy, so has stuck with a vegetarian diet.

Edy developed design and photography experience while working at DesignElevations.com on fashion shoots, and now does her own photography to accompany her articles and books.

Edy plays tennis several times a week, and volunteers for the American Cancer Society and the Actor's Theatre of Santa Cruz. She and her husband grow many of their own fruits and vegetables in their backyard organic gardener. She is a retired software engineering manager (AOL, Sun Microsystems, Schlumberger, NASA), a violinist, and a published writer* on food and travel. Edy lives in Aptos, CA with her husband, two dogs and a cat..

Listen to Edy's interview about her book.

* See: Elegance on Rails High in the Andes

Praise from reviewers:

• " Edy Henderson, who lives locally, has compiled a book of vegan recipes that would appeal to even the most die-hard meat eaters. One of my favorite recipes in the book is Rigatoni and Brussels sprouts – both of which I love. There are recipes with Asian, Mediterranean and Latin American inspirations, and some terrific desserts, too." - Josie Cowden, Aptos Times
• "Edy Henderson has recently published a cookbook that reflects her passions for family, food and travel. Edy adapted family recipes and international flavors to accommodate dietary needs of loved ones who are vegan and/or have nut allergies. You will love these vegetable-based dishes in her book, Vegan Recipes From the Heart. It includes beautiful, color images showing these meals are a feast for the eyes as well as the palate." - Seascape Sports Club
• "The book arrived and I have enjoyed paging through it. The contents are beautifully presented, with a good variety of tasty sounding recipes, and a very tempting array of professionally photographed dishes. Bravo, Edy !! The content fits perfectly with our veggie rich eating style. Please convey my appreciation to Edy for her artistic and thoughtful presentation and her wonderful array of recipes." - Nicki
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