Spices of Life is an innovative project that engages lovers of food, good health, and fun through an on-line vlog and blog, and downloadable podcasts. The show features Nina Simonds, contributer to the New York Times, Oprah Magazine, and author of several best-selling cookbooks. For more info, check out http://www.spicesoflife.com.

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Nina Simonds is one of the country’s leading authorities on Asian cooking. She is the author of nine books on Chinese cuisine and culture, including the best-selling Asian Noodles and A Spoonful of Ginger, which won both the IACP and the James Beard Foundation Book Award for health. Her children’s book, Moonbeams, Dumplings and Dragon Boats: Chinese Folktales and Activities for Children, (Harcourt Brace) won a Parent’s Choice Award and a 2002 Chapman Award for Best Classroom Read-Alouds. Simonds’ last book Spices of Life: Simple and Delicious Recipes for Great Health” also won both the IACP and the James Beard Foundation Book Award for health in May of 2006.

In 2001, Simonds hosted a public television food/health/lifestyle special “A Spoonful of Ginger: Food as Medicine which won the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Television Special. She has been a member of the Nutrition Roundtable at the Harvard School of Public Health for the past six years.

Simonds is a regular contributor to Oprah Magazine and the New York Times. She was a Correspondent/ Contributing Editor for Gourmet Magazine for six years, but began writing for Gourmet 27 years ago. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Health Cooking Light, Harper’s Bazaar, Bon Appetit, Family Circle, and Self magazine.

Her website and food/health/lifestyle video blog, www.spicesoflife.com was launched in February and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and on the home page of iTunes.

Read more about Nina Simonds’s books here.

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Steve Garfield is a video blogger based in Boston, Massachusetts. Garfield is one of the Internet’s first video bloggers having launched his own regular video blog on January 1, 2004.

Garfield likes to capture and share fleeting moments and teach others how to do the same. This led to his becoming co-creator of the first vloggercon, and a co-organizer of the first PodCamp held in Boston. He currently runs the Boston Media Makers.

Garfield is currently a regular contributor to Rocketboom and a co-host of the New Mediacracy podcast.

Visit Steve on the web at SteveGarfield.com

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Beth Kanter is a trainer, coach, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of technology. She has worked on projects that include: training, curriculum development, research, and evaluation. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing, video blogging, screencasting, social networking sites, and virtual worlds, etc) to support nonprofit. She is an experienced coach to “digital immigrants” in the personal mastery of these tools.

She is a professional blogger and writes about the use of social media tools in the nonprofit sector for social change.

Visit Beth on the web at Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media.