ANN OGDEN GAFFNEY

Ann Ogden-Gaffney is fashionista turned chef and healthy cooking advocate. She is the award-winning author of the James Beard nominated cookbook ‘Cook for your LIFE’, the founder of Cook for Your LIFE, a published academic researcher, and a Dame D’Escoffier.

Ann’s own experience with cancer led her to create both her cookbook and the Cook for Your LIFE website. The website has helped millions of cancer patients and caregivers learn how to cook and eat delicious, real food to promote healthy eating in survivorship, and to nourish and comfort during treatment.

Ann’s work with Cook for Your LIFE has included academic research. Collaborating with researchers at Columbia University and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, Ann has designed several food behavior studies funded by major companies like Aetna, and by the National Institutes of Health. You can read about them here.

Ann’s take on food is not what you’d expect given her focus. Before immersing herself in the world of food and cooking, Ann had a long career in the fashion industry which took her to work and eat, all over the world, first from Paris where she lived for 12 years, and later from New York where she finally settled down. Ann’s food is informed by both her Italian heritage, her extensive travels, and by her love of cooking and adventurous eating. 

Ann’s food is gourmet food that’s the best of both worlds. You can eat to live and live to eat!

To hear Ann talk about her work, and how she got there, listen to this wonderful interview with @rozannegold One Woman Kitchen podcast.